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Good morning. How are you all doing today?

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Excellent. Well, it is a blessing to see all of you.

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If you are joining us here at Hosanna for the first time in our sanctuary,

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or if you're joining us online,

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we want to say welcome to all of you.

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We're so glad you're here to worship with us today.

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I am Pastor Nathan,

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and today we are going to be in Revelation chapter 6,

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and we will be celebrating communion together as the body of Christ.

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So if you're watching online,

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get your communion emblems ready.

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We will be doing that at the tail end of service.

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Then just next week,

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we'll be taking a break from Revelation to celebrate Mother's Day.

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So I just encourage everybody to be praying for your moms if you're not praying for

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your moms because moms need prayer and we love them.

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So we're going to be celebrating moms next week.

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But this morning, we are going to be looking at

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the exciting topic of the beginning of the tribulation period,

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the beginning of all that God is going to do,

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specifically with the charge of the four horsemen of the apocalypse.

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In ancient and middle-aged times,

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one of the most devastating tools of warfare was the cavalry charge.

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If I say calvary through this at any time, forgive me.

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I've been wrestling to say cavalry correctly as I've been preparing this study.

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But really, a charge of mounted soldiers was

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greatly feared because it was near unstoppable in ancient times.

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The advantages of cavalry were improved mobility.

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You could get around faster with horses,

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greater height, and we understand Star Wars taught us the importance of the high ground.

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So it's very important to have that.

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Calvary had speed,

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they had inertial mass when the weight of a horse could just charge through soldiers.

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Then just the psychological impact of this thundering charge of hooves coming at you was huge.

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The Mongolian Huns were famous for their mounted archers.

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Over time, cavalry became increasingly armored to the point where you get to the Middle Ages,

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eventually evolving into the mounted knights that we understand in the medieval period.

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Calvary as a devastating tool of conquest just had

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such dominance until the use of firearms and muskets and cannons

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came upon the scene and became commonly used,

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which then made the mounted armored cavalry largely ineffective.

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But as time went on,

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horses were eventually replaced with tanks.

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But what's interesting is the term cavalry is still in use today to

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describe tank units in many militaries around the world.

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Now, Revelation 6 opens up with a devastating cavalry charge.

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A devastating charge of four colored horses that are

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representative of the opening four cataclysmic judgments that will come on the earth.

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As I said, these four horsemen are commonly referred to as the four horsemen of the apocalypse.

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What we're going to see this morning is a white horse,

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a fiery red horse,

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an ominous black horse,

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and a pale green horse.

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But what's really interesting is these four horsemen,

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in addition to being the opening of the tribulation,

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are in and of themselves like a trailer for the rest of the movie.

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They're a trailer for the rest of Revelation.

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They're a summary of all the details that are to

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follow in the subsequent chapters all the way up through Chapter 19.

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So these four horsemen and what they represent really are

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a snapshot picture of the entire tribulation period that is to come upon the earth.

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This cavalry charge will devastate the earth.

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There's really no other way to put it.

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It will devastate this planet.

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This time that we're going to be studying and opening here with these four horsemen is not

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just a tribulation, it is the tribulation.

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The tribulation. There were dark ages in our history,

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but these are going to be the darkest of ages.

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There are troubled times in our history,

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but these are going to be the toughest and most troubled for mankind on all of earth.

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So this cataclysmic series of judgments that has come into the earth,

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it's an important topic biblically.

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It's written about in no less than 60 different places in the Bible.

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In fact, there are only two other subjects that are talked

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about more than the tribulation period.

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Number one is salvation and number two is the second coming of Jesus Christ.

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But in third place,

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the third most talked about event of history in

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Scripture is this great tribulation, this tribulation period.

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In this time, as we'll see as we go through Scripture,

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will be worse than anything that has ever happened on planet earth.

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It's going to be worse than World War I,

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worse than World War II,

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it's going to be worse than the Holocaust,

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it's going to be worse than the bombs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki,

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worse than the black plague that was in Europe in the 14th century.

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It's going to be worse than the almost seven million worldwide deaths

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in most recent time related to COVID.

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It's going to be worse than the 500 million deaths from the 1918 Spanish flu.

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All of this will pale in comparison to

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the great devastation and what happens during the tribulation period.

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In fact, the prophet Jeremiah said in Jeremiah chapter 30 verse 7,

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how awful that day will be.

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When he says day there, he's referring to a time period.

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How awful that day will be,

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there will be no other like it.

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So as we move through the following chapters in the coming weeks,

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we will see a progressively increasingly

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intense movement of judgments as God pours out his wrath upon the earth.

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All culminating though in the return of Jesus Christ,

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Satan being bound and the millennial kingdom being established here on earth.

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But it all starts here with these four horsemen giving us

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an overview of everything that's to come.

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But before we get to that this morning,

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we do want to open in a time of worship.

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We want to praise God because as we know his wrath is to come,

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we know that he is a God of justice,

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and we know that all of that is true and real.

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We know scripturally how God feels about sin.

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We still praise him for his will.

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We still praise him for his judgment on sin,

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and more importantly, we praise him for the salvation that is

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available to all who call upon his name today.

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We're so thankful that he has saved us. Amen. Let's pray.

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Father God, Lord, we love you and we thank you Lord so much.

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God, as we're studying through this revelation Lord,

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let us not forget that this is ultimately a revelation of Jesus Christ.

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Lord, all of this is about teaching us who you are,

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your heart, your will, your ways Lord.

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In God today as we start the lengthy revelation of what is to come Lord,

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what you showed John from the perspective of heaven.

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God, may we learn about you.

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Specifically Lord, we are going to learn how seriously you take sin.

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We're going to learn what it means when the Bible says the wages of sin is death.

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Lord, we're going to learn what it means when we say God is a God of justice.

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But Lord, today we are still in the time before these events,

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and we still live in a time God where we have

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the opportunity to call out to you before the wrath falls upon this earth Lord.

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God, we are gathered here as your kids today in your house to study your word yes,

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but to worship you and to praise your holy name,

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to celebrate you God.

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We're so thankful for the salvation that you've offered to us,

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that you've granted to us through our faith in what you did on the cross,

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and the fact that you rose from the dead Lord, we're so grateful.

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But God, we are a people that are here in this earth today with a call to go out and to take

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the gospel, to take the light of hope, to take the message of salvation to those that don't yet have it Lord.

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And God, as we study these things that are to come Lord,

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things that we're not going to be here for is the church.

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Lord, let it still be a motivator to us to be busy about the gospel,

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to be busy about sharing the truth, the hope of salvation with those that don't have it God.

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Let us be people who go out and do the work of an evangelist in this world.

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But God, we love you and we just want to praise you.

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We want to start with just remembering who you are,

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understanding that we are blessed for reading this book,

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and remembering God that you are worthy, you are holy, you are God Almighty,

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and we love you so much. It's in Jesus name we pray, Amen.

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All right.

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We are in Revelation chapter 6.

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We're going to be looking at the first eight verses this morning,

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but we'll start with reading the first two introducing our first writer.

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It says, Then I saw the lamb open one of the seven seals,

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and I heard one of the four living creatures say with a voice like thunder,

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Come, I looked and there was a white horse.

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Its rider held a bow,

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a crown was given to him,

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and he went out as a conqueror in order to conquer.

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Now, so far as we've gone through chapters 4 and 5 of Revelation,

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we know that we are in heaven at this point.

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John has been caught up to heaven where he saw God on the throne.

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He has seen these four strange living creatures.

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He saw the 24 elders which represent the entirety of the saved body of Christ,

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and they're from heaven watching.

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They are now seeing the events of tribulation unfold on the earth below.

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Now, as I said, John,

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he saw Jesus, the lamb who was slaughtered,

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step up in chapter 5 and to take the scroll from the right hand of the father who was sitting on the throne.

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He was able to do that because Jesus is the only one worthy,

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the only one that could fulfill the redemption clause.

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We spoke about how there's a few different ideas and interpretations of what this scroll is,

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and one of those ideas is that the scroll represented the title deed to earth,

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that was given over to man in the beginning in the garden,

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and then which man gave over to Satan when he traded

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his dominion of the earth for the knowledge of good and evil as he ate from the tree.

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Then we saw that in the history of title deeds in the Jewish culture,

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that often there was a redemption clause that one could buy back a deed that was lost or sold or given away.

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In this case, Jesus was the only one who qualified,

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who was worthy to fulfill that redemption clause by shedding his blood on the cross,

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and thus purchasing back all of creation,

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purchasing back us who are in the earth as a part of creation,

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and basically redeeming all of it.

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So in doing all of that, he prevailed,

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he conquered, and then bought all of it back from the curse of sin and death.

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Now, he begins to break those seven seals that were on that scroll,

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unleashing the judgment upon the earth.

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Now, each of these seven seals that are on this scroll,

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they're going to represent a judgment of God on the unbelieving earth.

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Then the seventh seal, when it is broken,

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that then ushers in the seven trumpet judgments,

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which are declaring more increasingly worse judgments through this tribulation period.

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The seventh trumpet, when it is sounded,

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then ushers in the seven bold judgments,

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which are then pictures of God then pouring out again,

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increasingly worse judgments on the earth.

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Now, some look at these seven seals,

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seven trumpets, and seven bold judgments

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as a retelling of the same seven events over and over and over.

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That's one interpretation of this.

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I personally disagree with that interpretation.

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I do believe it is 21 successive movements as we go through these seven seals,

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seven trumpets, and seven bolds.

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But it all opens here with a rider on a white horse,

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as Jesus opens the first seal.

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The question obviously is, who is this rider?

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Who is the rider on the white horse and what does it represent?

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Well, typically, if you're a fan or you remember old Westerns,

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and more specifically when they were colorized finally,

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you would have these movies where there would be bad guys in the town,

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and then the hero would ride in.

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What color was the horse the hero was always on?

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It was always a white horse, right?

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Sometimes he had a white hat.

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I was like, in the Old West and dust everywhere,

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how do you keep a white hat clean?

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But it was always clean, right?

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It was just a sign of purity and heroism as this hero of the story would ride in,

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the good guy on the white horse.

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Many see the rider here on this white horse,

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or at least some do, as Jesus.

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I was studying this and just trying to get into the interpretations of this,

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and there's quite a few people within the church that say,

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this is Jesus, he's the rider because he's on a white horse,

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and that's the picture that we see of Jesus,

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but I'm here to tell you that it's not Jesus,

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or I don't believe it's Jesus.

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The rider that we see here on this white horse in the beginning of Revelation,

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he's a counterfeit.

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He's a counterfeit Jesus.

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If you and I were to try and make a counterfeit $20 bill,

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you would make it look as much like the authentic $20 bill is possible.

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That's how counterfeit money works.

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We wouldn't put somebody else's face on it and try and pass it off as a real bill

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because people would look at it and go, no, that's not Andrew Jackson.

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It's a fake.

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This counterfeit that we see here is this white horse.

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This first rider is such a good counterfeit that even in today's times,

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there are some who have been fooled right out the gate as the identity of this rider,

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and then that is something that is going to happen when he actually comes,

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that people will be fooled, completely fooled as the identity of this rider.

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Now, again, some think it's Jesus because there is a connection to this white horse.

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If you go to Revelation chapter 19, which is the second coming of Jesus Christ,

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it tells us there that Jesus comes on a white horse.

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And so they go, white horse, white horse must be Jesus.

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Okay?

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But this can't be Jesus for a number of reasons that I want to share with you.

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Scripturally, although Jesus does come on a white horse, in Revelation chapter 19,

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Jesus comes at the end of tribulation.

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We are here at the beginning of tribulation.

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When Jesus comes at the end of tribulation during his second coming,

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he comes to end warfare, to end the bloodshed and the carnage that has taken place

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on the earth and had been taking place on the earth.

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But this rider who's coming at the beginning of tribulation,

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as we're going to see this morning, ushers in warfare, ushers in carnage and devastation.

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Additionally, if you go to Revelation chapter 19 and you read about the coming of Christ,

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it says that Jesus is returning on a white horse with many crowns on his head, many crowns.

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Now, the word for crown there in Revelation 19 is the Greek word diatomata.

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That word means a permanent crown that a king would wear.

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It's the permanent sign of authority and it signifies ultimate authority.

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So Jesus comes with the many diatomatas, the many permanent crowns

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that represent his complete authority over everything.

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Here in Revelation chapter 6, it tells us that the rider has a crown that was given to him,

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but the word for crown is a different Greek word.

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It's the Greek word Stefanos, which refers to the victory wreath

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that you would commonly see victors at the Olympic Games get, right?

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They would get this crown, but it was a victory wreath, but more importantly,

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it was a temporary crown, not a permanent crown, very different.

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And so the picture here is this rider that is coming in as the first seal is open,

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has a crown of victory, but it's a temporary victory that he will have.

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In Revelation 19, Jesus returns on the white horse with many crowns

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and it says he returns with a sword.

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Here, this rider on this white horse returns with a bow.

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And biblically throughout scripture, a bow is often seen as a symbol of the hunt

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or the symbol of the hunter.

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For example, in Genesis chapter 10 is the first time we see the idea of a hunter

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or someone connected to the hunt in the name Nimrod,

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this man Nimrod who the Bible calls a great hunter.

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That word hunter in the original language there literally means bozeman,

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so he's a great archer, okay?

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And this was the man Nimrod who established Babel, which became Babylon.

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A lot of people look at Nimrod as the first dictator of the world,

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the first one to stand up and try and rally the entire world against God

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and to lead others to rally against God as well.

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And so the bow of this rider connects the idea of this rider to the idea of Nimrod,

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a worldwide dictator that's going to come and lead people in a rebellion against God.

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Then in Ephesians chapter 6 verse 16, we read as Paul wrote,

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in every situation we're called to take up the shield of faith

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with which you can distinguish all the flaming arrows of who?

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The evil one, the flaming arrows of the evil one.

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And you go, well, where are arrows fired from?

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They're fired from a bow typically, right?

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And so a bow here and the one who fires the bow here in Ephesians chapter 6 is evil six,

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is the evil one.

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And so you put all this together.

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It gives us a picture of like who is this rider on this white horse in Revelation 6?

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It's not Jesus.

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The rider is the antichrist, the counterfeit Christ,

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the one who looks just like Jesus but isn't Jesus at all,

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the one who's going to come in the name of peace,

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but is who's going to bring warfare and bloodshed and destruction

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through the tribulation period,

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the one who's going to come claiming to be the one, but he is a counterfeit.

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He is a very clever imitation and imposter pretending to be Jesus.

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Now, one of the details I want us to note here,

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and this gets into a little bit of biblical symbology,

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is you'll notice this rider has a bow, but he doesn't have any arrows.

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It doesn't say he comes in with any arrows.

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Very often, if you go through scripture and you do kind of an overview of bow in scriptures,

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one, you're going to get bow a thousand times.

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So it's going to be a long study, okay?

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But once you comb through and get all the bows out,

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you find bow. Every time it lists bow, or most often when it lists bow,

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it always says bow and arrow, bow and arrow.

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And they had a bow and arrow, and they stocked up on bows and arrows.

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And so you always see bows and arrows together,

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but here in this particular instance, the rider has a bow,

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but it doesn't indicate any arrows.

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Now, symbolically, that suggests that this first rider who's coming in to conquer,

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it says, is going to do so not by initially, at least, not by military conquest,

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but by other means.

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And the picture here of that white horse and the hero and him pretending or masquerading

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as the Messiah or the one to come is that he rides in initially in peace,

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to bring peace, but it's a false and temporary peace.

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He's given this crown by the people of earth because he's the one that comes in

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and solves all of earth's problems.

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He is the one that even is able to get peace between the Jews and the Arabs

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in the Middle East, and he is the one that covenants with Israel

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and allows Israel to rebuild their temple on the Temple Mount,

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which has been an impossibility.

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And still to this day, people are like, we're not sure how that's going to be possible

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because the Muslims have one of their mosques right up there on the Temple Mount.

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But this rider is going to come in riding in peace and bring peace, and guess what?

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Everybody is going to go, the hero on the white horse has arrived.

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He has arrived, and his conquering is going to be a conquering of peace,

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or everybody's going to be like, yeah, let him take over.

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Let him rule.

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And like I said, he has given that crown there, which is representing the authority

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here on earth, but it's a Stefanos.

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It's a temporary crown.

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It's a temporary rulership that he has given.

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But when you do a whole overview, and we don't have time this morning to do all that,

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but to look at all of what scripture has to say about this man, the Antichrist,

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what you see is a picture of someone who is the ultimate wolf in sheep's clothing,

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the ultimate counterfeit.

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Or to put it in terms of modern social media, the Antichrist is all Photoshop and filters.

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OK, he is going to manage to build this temporary peace on earth.

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Like I said, even between the Arabs and the Jews, which everybody's like,

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that's impossible.

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And in the middle of this seven-year tribulation period, as we'll see,

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he's going to break the covenant he makes with Israel.

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He's going to go and stand in their temple and say, I am God, worship me.

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His mask is going to come off.

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He's going to be seen as the bad guy he is, the imposter he is,

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and he's going to demand that he is the true one.

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He is God in the flesh.

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He is the one to be worshiped.

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So the Bible talks about, in many different places,

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and specifically in 1 John, about precursor Antichrists

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that are going to come throughout history.

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These pictures of what the Antichrist is going to look like,

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but they're precursor images.

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And we've seen many of them over time as people have come in and trying to take over world domination

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to try and conquer everything, thinking that they're going to be the answer

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and bring all the peace.

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One of those is in our recent history, about a half century ago,

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by a man named Hitler.

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And you might think, Hitler, all we know about Hitler

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is that he was devastating, right?

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That he was a murderer.

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But when he started his rise to power, most of the Western powers,

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especially the French and the British, thought he was the hero of the day.

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They thought he was the one that was going to come and bring peace to the world

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and solve all the world's problems.

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In fact, the Britain Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain,

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actually signed a peace treaty with him initially

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because they thought he's a man of peace.

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He's a man of peace that's going to fix and solve everything.

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And so he signed a peace treaty with him.

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But there was this other man there in Britain named Winston Churchill

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who said, don't trust that guy.

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Don't trust him.

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He's a wolf in sheep's clothing.

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And unfortunately, by the time anybody could figure that out,

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the entire world was plunged into war.

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He was a precursor, a picture.

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And that whole coming in peace and then plunging the world into war,

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the same is going to happen in the tribulation period,

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but in a much greater capacity.

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In fact, in 1 Thessalonians 5, verse 3, it says this,

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when they say peace and security, then sudden destruction will come upon them

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like labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.

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When the world says everything is finally figured out,

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peace has arrived, we did it.

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Our hero is here.

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He's at the top.

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He's running everything.

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We're good.

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Then sudden destruction will come upon them.

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And then it says they will not escape.

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That's an interesting phrase.

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You might think, well, why won't they escape?

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Well, one, because it's God's judgment being released upon them.

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It's God's judgment.

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But two, this writer has backup.

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This writer has a posse that is writing with him.

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It's not just a writer.

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It's a cavalry charge.

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And it's not the hero who is riding into town to save the day,

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but it's a cavalry charge led by a false peace,

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but really with the intent to kill and destroy.

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And as it says, he went out as a conqueror in order to conquer.

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And so that brings us to verse 3.

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It says, when he opened the second seal,

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I heard the second living creature say, come.

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Then another horse went out, a fiery red one.

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And its rider was allowed to take peace from the earth

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so that people would slaughter one another and a large sword was given to him.

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So the peace, the false peace that this first rider brings in,

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it doesn't last.

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It doesn't last.

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In its place comes devastation, the devastation of warfare

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that is represented by this dramatic vision of this fiery red horse.

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The color red is often associated throughout the Bible with carnage,

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with terrorism.

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You see that connection a lot.

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In Revelation chapter 12, we're going to see the red dragon.

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In Revelation chapter 17, we're going to see the red beast.

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You see this color red that is associated.

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And we know that today in color theory.

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People say, don't paint your room red because it's just

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going to make you angry when you sit in it.

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And there's some studies that back that up as colors can affect us

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and red can be a color when it's the predominant thing that causes people

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to get upset and get angry and they don't know why and get out

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of the red room, right?

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But just like Hitler promised peace and then plunged the world into war,

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the Antichrist is going to do the same.

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But it's going to be in a much greater way.

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He's going to promise peace.

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But then we see here as represented by this fiery red horse

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that he will then take peace from the earth and bring war and bring slaughter.

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Now it describes how that happens here with this picture of this large sword.

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It says, a large sword was given to him.

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So again, remember the first rider came in and representing the work

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of the Antichrist entering into the world came with a bow and no arrows, right?

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But now in the place of that bow is a large sword, which is just understood

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to be an implement of destruction, an implement of warfare,

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and the sword is taken up.

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But it's interesting the words there, large sword, because we might think,

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oh, big sword, right?

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Large, right?

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It's referring to a big sword.

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But that's not what that word large means.

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It's not referring to the size of the sword.

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Large is referring to the fact that the sword is remarkable in degree or effect.

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All right?

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So in other translations, it says a great sword, right?

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That it has a big effect when it's brought into the world.

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And then that word sword itself is referring specifically

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to a short stabbing sword that Roman soldiers used.

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So it wasn't like, you know, you think great sword, right?

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You know, Braveheart and Mel Gibson as William Wallace, right?

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It's not this giant sword.

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It's a short stabbing sword that has great effect.

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Now, although this short stabbing sword was primarily used by Roman soldiers,

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it was also a sword that was a favorite of assassins because it was easy to conceal.

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It was a short sword that was easy to hide.

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And so possibly speaking of the Antichrist as he comes in with all smiles saying,

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peace, peace, all is good.

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And then right when we're going, yes, everything is wonderful.

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We love him.

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It's just like, aha, stabby stabby.

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And then he brings war into the earth, right?

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So peace vanishes from the earth as war comes upon it.

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Now, some people object, or at least I read that some object to war being a sign

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of the end times, right?

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00:26:52,240 --> 00:26:54,560
Because they're like, we've always had war, right?

476
00:26:54,560 --> 00:26:57,120
War has existed since man has existed.

477
00:26:57,120 --> 00:27:00,040
You know, it's like, how is this a sign of the end times?

478
00:27:00,040 --> 00:27:05,040
You know, the Norwegian Academy of Sciences said that since 3600 BC

479
00:27:05,040 --> 00:27:14,440
until today, there have been 14,531 wars and only 292 years of peace.

480
00:27:14,440 --> 00:27:20,480
That's 2.6 wars per year, one year of peace out of every 20 years.

481
00:27:20,480 --> 00:27:27,040
Or to break it down, it's 36 hours of peace every month of man's history or one minute

482
00:27:27,040 --> 00:27:33,560
of peace for every four hours of war across the entire history of mankind.

483
00:27:33,560 --> 00:27:35,880
We like to fight.

484
00:27:35,880 --> 00:27:37,000
We like to dominate.

485
00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:38,840
We like to get our way.

486
00:27:38,840 --> 00:27:42,360
And without Christ, that comes with hurting others and taking from others

487
00:27:42,360 --> 00:27:44,360
and devastating others.

488
00:27:44,360 --> 00:27:48,040
But the point here in Revelation with this large sword is that it's going to be sudden,

489
00:27:48,040 --> 00:27:50,440
it's going to be unexpected, and it's going to be much,

490
00:27:50,440 --> 00:27:53,800
much worse than anything we have ever seen.

491
00:27:53,800 --> 00:27:59,680
And it will cultivate in what will be called the mother of all battles known

492
00:27:59,680 --> 00:28:04,880
as the Battle of Armageddon, and we'll get to that in Revelation chapter 16.

493
00:28:04,880 --> 00:28:10,000
So we see a man of peace will come, temporarily solve all the world's problems,

494
00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:15,800
temporarily have the authority over all the earth, but quickly will put down this bow

495
00:28:15,800 --> 00:28:18,560
and this large sword is taken up, this warfare,

496
00:28:18,560 --> 00:28:21,960
this great warfare will ensue on a scale never seen.

497
00:28:21,960 --> 00:28:27,160
And what a terrible vision John is seeing from heaven.

498
00:28:27,160 --> 00:28:29,040
Incidentally, he's not there for it.

499
00:28:29,040 --> 00:28:31,600
He's in heaven watching this unfold.

500
00:28:31,600 --> 00:28:34,720
But what a terrible thing to see come upon the earth.

501
00:28:34,720 --> 00:28:37,800
This white horse, this counterfeit Jesus bringing in false peace

502
00:28:37,800 --> 00:28:41,840
and deceiving everyone, and then followed by this red horse, which is war

503
00:28:41,840 --> 00:28:46,120
and devastation and people killing one another, and then we get to verse 5.

504
00:28:46,120 --> 00:28:50,320
When he opened the third seal, I heard the living creature say, come.

505
00:28:50,320 --> 00:28:52,560
And I looked and there was a black horse.

506
00:28:52,560 --> 00:28:55,200
Its rider had a set of scales in his hand.

507
00:28:55,200 --> 00:28:58,000
Then I heard something like a voice among the four creatures say,

508
00:28:58,000 --> 00:29:02,000
a quart of wheat for a denarius and three quarts of barley for a denarius,

509
00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:05,200
but do not harm the oil and the wine.

510
00:29:05,200 --> 00:29:09,040
Now, we read stuff like that and we're like, what does that mean?

511
00:29:09,040 --> 00:29:11,680
Like, what are you talking about, right?

512
00:29:11,680 --> 00:29:15,520
But again, we're seeing these things represent things

513
00:29:15,520 --> 00:29:17,640
to come throughout the tribulation period.

514
00:29:17,640 --> 00:29:20,040
Now, the first thing I want to notice is this is the third time

515
00:29:20,040 --> 00:29:23,640
that the living creature has said to John, come, right?

516
00:29:23,640 --> 00:29:28,320
That word come literally means to step up or approach to see, all right?

517
00:29:28,320 --> 00:29:30,000
Now, this isn't scriptural.

518
00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:32,680
I'm just the picture in my head is that like, hey, look,

519
00:29:32,680 --> 00:29:36,600
look what's happening down on earth and like step up and look, right?

520
00:29:36,600 --> 00:29:38,200
See what's going on.

521
00:29:38,200 --> 00:29:42,760
And perhaps John just was stepping away, horrified by what he was seeing

522
00:29:42,760 --> 00:29:43,640
come upon the earth.

523
00:29:43,640 --> 00:29:48,120
And as we get into the details of it, yeah, it is horrific what is to come.

524
00:29:48,120 --> 00:29:52,240
But still he steps up and then he sees this black horse, it says,

525
00:29:52,240 --> 00:29:55,320
and it's rider holding a set of scales.

526
00:29:55,320 --> 00:30:00,760
That set of scales there is the picture of scales used for weighing things.

527
00:30:00,760 --> 00:30:04,600
There are scales used for measuring, weighing, rationing.

528
00:30:04,600 --> 00:30:08,240
They were typically used in these times as a means of calculating

529
00:30:08,240 --> 00:30:09,360
the worth of things, right?

530
00:30:09,360 --> 00:30:12,040
You wanted to buy this, you would set it on this side of the scale

531
00:30:12,040 --> 00:30:14,120
and then you put what you were paying for it on this side.

532
00:30:14,120 --> 00:30:16,960
And when those things balanced out, it was a fair deal.

533
00:30:16,960 --> 00:30:19,680
It's the idea of commerce.

534
00:30:19,680 --> 00:30:23,720
But then his voice gets into this interesting phrase about the cost of wheat

535
00:30:23,720 --> 00:30:25,680
and the cost of barley, right?

536
00:30:25,680 --> 00:30:27,280
What does that have to do with these scales?

537
00:30:27,280 --> 00:30:33,560
Well, this all represents a picture of what really is the result of war.

538
00:30:33,560 --> 00:30:34,920
And that is famine.

539
00:30:34,920 --> 00:30:36,640
That is scarcity.

540
00:30:36,640 --> 00:30:42,240
That is the lack of necessary resources, necessary sustenance.

541
00:30:42,240 --> 00:30:45,680
This is what he's picturing here because when he shows this scale,

542
00:30:45,680 --> 00:30:48,240
he's holding a scale in his hands and then he starts to say,

543
00:30:48,240 --> 00:30:51,720
this is how much food is going to cost, right?

544
00:30:51,720 --> 00:30:54,480
And that's the idea of a quart of wheat.

545
00:30:54,480 --> 00:30:57,840
A quart of wheat, according to Greek historian Herodotus,

546
00:30:57,840 --> 00:31:01,560
was the daily allotment for a single soldier in warfare.

547
00:31:01,560 --> 00:31:04,600
So when a soldier would go out to war, a quart of wheat

548
00:31:04,600 --> 00:31:08,200
is what he needed to stay nourished, to stay healthy,

549
00:31:08,200 --> 00:31:09,560
to stay strong and vibrant.

550
00:31:09,560 --> 00:31:10,640
That was the idea.

551
00:31:10,640 --> 00:31:14,800
It was, incidentally, the bare minimum to keep someone healthy

552
00:31:14,800 --> 00:31:17,000
and active on the battlefield.

553
00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:19,840
And then this phrase, three quarts of barley.

554
00:31:19,840 --> 00:31:23,520
Barley was like a lower nutrition food, right?

555
00:31:23,520 --> 00:31:26,120
Like where wheat might have been the steak,

556
00:31:26,120 --> 00:31:28,600
barley was the cup of noodles, OK?

557
00:31:28,600 --> 00:31:30,840
It was what college students lived on, right?

558
00:31:30,840 --> 00:31:33,160
It was the low quality food.

559
00:31:33,160 --> 00:31:35,520
Now, barley in those times was typically something

560
00:31:35,520 --> 00:31:37,880
that was fed to the animals instead of people

561
00:31:37,880 --> 00:31:39,520
because it was more affordable.

562
00:31:39,520 --> 00:31:41,360
And of course, there was like, oh, yeah, the people

563
00:31:41,360 --> 00:31:42,640
are going to get the good stuff.

564
00:31:42,640 --> 00:31:46,680
Animals will give the less quality food.

565
00:31:46,680 --> 00:31:48,600
And then he says a denarius there.

566
00:31:48,600 --> 00:31:50,680
And a denarius or denarius, depending

567
00:31:50,680 --> 00:31:54,960
on how you pronounce it, is simply one whole day's wage

568
00:31:54,960 --> 00:31:56,920
for a common worker, OK?

569
00:31:56,920 --> 00:31:59,360
So when you put this together, I heard something like a voice

570
00:31:59,360 --> 00:32:02,840
say, a quart of wheat for a denarius.

571
00:32:02,840 --> 00:32:05,040
One whole day's necessary sustenance

572
00:32:05,040 --> 00:32:07,520
will cost one whole day's earning.

573
00:32:07,520 --> 00:32:09,960
Or three quarts of barley for a denarius.

574
00:32:09,960 --> 00:32:12,520
OK, even the lower quality nutrition food

575
00:32:12,520 --> 00:32:15,720
is still going to require a whole day's worth of earning.

576
00:32:15,720 --> 00:32:19,120
And the idea here is that as a result of this war that

577
00:32:19,120 --> 00:32:21,720
is going to come upon globally the Earth,

578
00:32:21,720 --> 00:32:25,080
that people will have to spend every single penny they have

579
00:32:25,080 --> 00:32:28,880
just to find something to eat to be healthy,

580
00:32:28,880 --> 00:32:33,480
just to get enough food to sustain themselves.

581
00:32:33,480 --> 00:32:36,000
That they're going to have to spend everything they got just

582
00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:38,520
to get the basic necessities of living.

583
00:32:38,520 --> 00:32:40,240
This is what's going to come upon the Earth

584
00:32:40,240 --> 00:32:41,120
in the conditions.

585
00:32:41,120 --> 00:32:44,040
Now, as I said, famine and scarcity,

586
00:32:44,040 --> 00:32:47,320
it's one of the biggest results of warfare.

587
00:32:47,320 --> 00:32:48,840
We've seen that throughout history,

588
00:32:48,840 --> 00:32:50,720
wherever there is a war.

589
00:32:50,720 --> 00:32:53,000
There's always instantly a shortage of food

590
00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:56,080
that follows as food supplies are destroyed,

591
00:32:56,080 --> 00:32:59,080
as food is taken by those that are fighting

592
00:32:59,080 --> 00:33:00,760
to keep their troops fed.

593
00:33:00,760 --> 00:33:03,840
And the people are the ones that end up suffering from this.

594
00:33:03,840 --> 00:33:06,160
On top of that, during war you have commerce

595
00:33:06,160 --> 00:33:08,560
and transportation of good is affected.

596
00:33:08,560 --> 00:33:10,560
Livestock gets killed, right?

597
00:33:10,560 --> 00:33:12,360
And so it gets difficult for people

598
00:33:12,360 --> 00:33:15,840
just to get the basic amount of food they need to survive.

599
00:33:15,840 --> 00:33:18,920
Most recently, we've seen this happening in Ukraine.

600
00:33:18,920 --> 00:33:21,080
As the war has devastated the country

601
00:33:21,080 --> 00:33:25,320
and devastated the cities and devastated just

602
00:33:25,320 --> 00:33:28,120
the basic needs that people have that they've

603
00:33:28,120 --> 00:33:30,080
been fleeing to the border.

604
00:33:30,080 --> 00:33:33,280
Earlier last year, we partnered with far reaching ministries

605
00:33:33,280 --> 00:33:34,880
because they have boots on the ground

606
00:33:34,880 --> 00:33:37,400
where there's millions and millions and millions of people

607
00:33:37,400 --> 00:33:39,280
fleeing to the borders just trying

608
00:33:39,280 --> 00:33:41,040
to get clean water to drink.

609
00:33:41,040 --> 00:33:43,000
And just trying to get enough food to feed them

610
00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:43,840
or their children.

611
00:33:43,840 --> 00:33:47,520
And so it's devastating what takes place there but not new.

612
00:33:47,520 --> 00:33:50,760
We've seen it throughout the history of man.

613
00:33:50,760 --> 00:33:53,200
But the hunger that he's talking about here,

614
00:33:53,200 --> 00:33:54,960
the hunger, the scale of the hunger

615
00:33:54,960 --> 00:33:59,240
is something that I don't think most of us

616
00:33:59,240 --> 00:34:01,760
have ever really experienced.

617
00:34:01,760 --> 00:34:04,520
Most of us, I don't believe, have ever

618
00:34:04,520 --> 00:34:10,200
experienced what it means to be really, really hungry.

619
00:34:10,200 --> 00:34:12,360
Today, there are some 800 million people

620
00:34:12,360 --> 00:34:16,560
worldwide that are classified as chronically malnourished.

621
00:34:16,560 --> 00:34:19,120
Which means they don't have a quart of wheat.

622
00:34:19,120 --> 00:34:21,920
They don't have enough food to just maintain

623
00:34:21,920 --> 00:34:24,760
the bare minimum of a healthy living

624
00:34:24,760 --> 00:34:26,480
when it comes to keeping the food that they

625
00:34:26,480 --> 00:34:27,320
need in their system.

626
00:34:27,320 --> 00:34:30,360
And that's a lot of people, 800 million worldwide.

627
00:34:30,360 --> 00:34:34,240
But during tribulation, it's going to be much worse.

628
00:34:34,240 --> 00:34:36,880
Much, much worse globally.

629
00:34:36,880 --> 00:34:40,640
And with worldwide war on a scale we've never seen,

630
00:34:40,640 --> 00:34:43,360
possibly nuclear weapons unleashed

631
00:34:43,360 --> 00:34:47,360
in this type of scenario, destroying, contaminating

632
00:34:47,360 --> 00:34:51,600
food supplies worldwide, food's going to get scarce.

633
00:34:51,600 --> 00:34:53,320
And that's going to cause inflation

634
00:34:53,320 --> 00:34:55,800
due to supply and demand.

635
00:34:55,800 --> 00:34:57,360
And unfortunately, no matter how much

636
00:34:57,360 --> 00:34:58,960
we try during that time, we're not

637
00:34:58,960 --> 00:35:00,440
going to be able to look at it and go, no, there's

638
00:35:00,440 --> 00:35:01,640
no inflation.

639
00:35:01,640 --> 00:35:03,680
We're not going to be able to go, no, let's redefine

640
00:35:03,680 --> 00:35:05,960
the word inflation to not call it inflation.

641
00:35:05,960 --> 00:35:10,240
It's going to be so real and so prevalent and so pervasive

642
00:35:10,240 --> 00:35:12,080
that nobody could deny what has taken place.

643
00:35:12,080 --> 00:35:14,080
And all of it will result in a struggle for people

644
00:35:14,080 --> 00:35:17,720
to meet even their own basic survival needs.

645
00:35:17,720 --> 00:35:19,280
But then he says this interesting phrase,

646
00:35:19,280 --> 00:35:22,480
do not harm the oil and wine.

647
00:35:22,480 --> 00:35:26,840
Well, oil and wine, biblically, are idioms for wealth

648
00:35:26,840 --> 00:35:29,840
or for the wealthy, for the rich.

649
00:35:29,840 --> 00:35:33,760
They also refer to things that aren't necessities.

650
00:35:33,760 --> 00:35:36,520
They would be considered luxuries of the time,

651
00:35:36,520 --> 00:35:37,880
not essential basic needs.

652
00:35:37,880 --> 00:35:41,800
And so the idea of here's how expensive basic food is going

653
00:35:41,800 --> 00:35:45,000
to cost, here's how expensive that all is going to be.

654
00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:46,880
The luxuries not being harmed could

655
00:35:46,880 --> 00:35:49,600
mean that the rich, the wealthy, aren't

656
00:35:49,600 --> 00:35:52,120
going to be as affected as much as the middle class

657
00:35:52,120 --> 00:35:54,520
and the poor will be, which is also

658
00:35:54,520 --> 00:35:57,720
something that is very common in times of famine and scarcity.

659
00:35:57,720 --> 00:36:00,320
But more importantly is during this time

660
00:36:00,320 --> 00:36:02,280
where food stores are being destroyed

661
00:36:02,280 --> 00:36:04,640
and the church not being there, you

662
00:36:04,640 --> 00:36:07,200
think about the picture where there's not

663
00:36:07,200 --> 00:36:09,640
going to be these Christian organizations like Feed

664
00:36:09,640 --> 00:36:11,320
the Children still trying to gather food

665
00:36:11,320 --> 00:36:12,280
and get it to the hungry.

666
00:36:12,280 --> 00:36:13,360
They're going to be gone.

667
00:36:13,360 --> 00:36:15,440
The church has been raptured at this point.

668
00:36:15,440 --> 00:36:17,720
There's not going to be organizations like Samaritan's

669
00:36:17,720 --> 00:36:19,640
Purse around that's going to step in with all

670
00:36:19,640 --> 00:36:21,400
this benevolence to help.

671
00:36:21,400 --> 00:36:25,240
All of that is going to be out of the world at this point.

672
00:36:25,240 --> 00:36:28,400
And so war, famine, hunger, malnourishment, all of this

673
00:36:28,400 --> 00:36:29,600
is just going to be great.

674
00:36:29,600 --> 00:36:31,840
And then it's going to lead to the final rider, which

675
00:36:31,840 --> 00:36:34,280
is disease and sickness in verse 7.

676
00:36:34,280 --> 00:36:35,920
It says, when he opened the fourth seal,

677
00:36:35,920 --> 00:36:38,920
I heard the voice of the fourth living creature say, come.

678
00:36:38,920 --> 00:36:41,560
And I looked and there was a pale green horse.

679
00:36:41,560 --> 00:36:46,040
Its rider was named Death and Hades was following after him.

680
00:36:46,040 --> 00:36:48,640
They were given authority over a fourth of the earth

681
00:36:48,640 --> 00:36:52,000
to kill by the sword, by famine, by plague,

682
00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:54,160
and by the wild animals of the earth.

683
00:36:54,160 --> 00:36:57,440
And so this fourth rider is described riding

684
00:36:57,440 --> 00:36:59,680
on this pale green horse.

685
00:36:59,680 --> 00:37:00,400
It's interesting.

686
00:37:00,400 --> 00:37:01,520
You're like pale green.

687
00:37:01,520 --> 00:37:02,080
What is that?

688
00:37:02,080 --> 00:37:07,560
It's a yellowish, greenish, gray is the best understanding of it.

689
00:37:07,560 --> 00:37:09,240
So I'll put it in modern terminology.

690
00:37:09,240 --> 00:37:11,120
We'll all instantly understand.

691
00:37:11,120 --> 00:37:14,200
Zombie skin.

692
00:37:14,200 --> 00:37:17,480
That's the picture, that dead skin

693
00:37:17,480 --> 00:37:20,120
that we see in movies that have zombies and stuff.

694
00:37:20,120 --> 00:37:22,800
It's just this picture of death and decay.

695
00:37:22,800 --> 00:37:24,600
But this is this pale green horse.

696
00:37:24,600 --> 00:37:27,320
And this rider, it says on this horse, is named Death.

697
00:37:27,320 --> 00:37:28,480
But he's not alone.

698
00:37:28,480 --> 00:37:30,120
He's followed by Hades.

699
00:37:30,120 --> 00:37:32,880
And so some look at that and go, hey, there's a fifth horse.

700
00:37:32,880 --> 00:37:35,000
That's just not described here.

701
00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:36,460
Now, whether there's a fifth horse

702
00:37:36,460 --> 00:37:38,300
or whether they're just together on the horse,

703
00:37:38,300 --> 00:37:39,520
it doesn't tell us.

704
00:37:39,520 --> 00:37:41,080
But the idea of death here, it says

705
00:37:41,080 --> 00:37:44,120
the rider on this pale green horse, his name was Death.

706
00:37:44,120 --> 00:37:45,600
And the word used for death there

707
00:37:45,600 --> 00:37:50,320
is referring to the event of physically dying, personified.

708
00:37:50,320 --> 00:37:51,480
Does that make sense?

709
00:37:51,480 --> 00:37:53,880
It's giving a personification to this event.

710
00:37:53,880 --> 00:37:58,600
This event of physically dying is now personified as a rider.

711
00:37:58,600 --> 00:38:00,480
And then it says, Hades follows after him.

712
00:38:00,480 --> 00:38:04,240
And that word for Hades is the place where the dead go

713
00:38:04,240 --> 00:38:06,000
or where the dead are.

714
00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:09,440
We would commonly use the word hell to refer to this.

715
00:38:09,440 --> 00:38:12,600
And so again, Hades is personified as a rider.

716
00:38:12,600 --> 00:38:16,000
But what it's telling us is death and hell ride together

717
00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:17,440
during the tribulation.

718
00:38:17,440 --> 00:38:20,520
Death and hell are present readily

719
00:38:20,520 --> 00:38:22,080
throughout the tribulation here.

720
00:38:22,080 --> 00:38:24,000
And it says they're given authority.

721
00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:27,520
That word authority means it's given the absolute right

722
00:38:27,520 --> 00:38:31,400
to take a quarter of the population of Earth to kill them.

723
00:38:31,400 --> 00:38:33,280
Now the fact that Hades is used here,

724
00:38:33,280 --> 00:38:35,680
that death, the event of dying is coming,

725
00:38:35,680 --> 00:38:37,600
and that Hades is following with him,

726
00:38:37,600 --> 00:38:38,980
which is the picture of hell,

727
00:38:38,980 --> 00:38:41,280
it's the idea that the quarter of the population

728
00:38:41,280 --> 00:38:44,320
of the Earth that dies here as a result of all of this

729
00:38:44,320 --> 00:38:46,980
are those who've rejected Christ, who aren't saved,

730
00:38:46,980 --> 00:38:48,840
who haven't received the gift of salvation

731
00:38:48,840 --> 00:38:51,840
because hell is riding with death.

732
00:38:51,840 --> 00:38:53,600
Now all four of these horses, as I said,

733
00:38:53,600 --> 00:38:56,680
they're a collective, somewhat chronological summary

734
00:38:56,680 --> 00:38:59,800
of what is taking place during the tribulation.

735
00:38:59,800 --> 00:39:01,980
And so when it says that they're given authority

736
00:39:01,980 --> 00:39:04,360
over a fourth of the Earth to kill by the sword,

737
00:39:04,360 --> 00:39:07,040
kill by the sword is corresponding to what comes

738
00:39:07,040 --> 00:39:08,720
from the red horse of war, right?

739
00:39:08,720 --> 00:39:10,200
The devastation of warfare.

740
00:39:10,200 --> 00:39:13,360
And then it says they're given authority to kill by famine,

741
00:39:13,360 --> 00:39:15,400
and that corresponds to the death

742
00:39:15,400 --> 00:39:17,320
that comes from this black horse,

743
00:39:17,320 --> 00:39:20,480
as represented by the black horse of famine and scarcity.

744
00:39:20,480 --> 00:39:22,560
But then you have these last two descriptions,

745
00:39:22,560 --> 00:39:24,560
which are interesting, to kill by plague,

746
00:39:24,560 --> 00:39:27,480
and to kill by the wild animals of the Earth.

747
00:39:28,480 --> 00:39:30,060
It could mean a couple different things.

748
00:39:30,060 --> 00:39:32,280
The word plague there simply means death,

749
00:39:32,280 --> 00:39:36,480
physical death by illness of some kind, disease, right?

750
00:39:36,480 --> 00:39:39,680
As I said, we've seen that over the history of the Earth

751
00:39:39,680 --> 00:39:42,080
with the black plague, and then we have the Spanish flu.

752
00:39:42,080 --> 00:39:46,620
Most recently we had COVID that just killed so many people,

753
00:39:46,620 --> 00:39:48,920
but plague and illness and sickness,

754
00:39:48,920 --> 00:39:52,560
it's just another natural byproduct of warfare.

755
00:39:52,560 --> 00:39:54,880
A Red One scholar said this, historically,

756
00:39:54,880 --> 00:39:57,080
as a country is engulfed in war,

757
00:39:57,080 --> 00:40:00,080
the able-bodied men are the ones who take up arms.

758
00:40:00,080 --> 00:40:01,400
Farmers leave their fields,

759
00:40:01,400 --> 00:40:03,360
and food supplies then become scarce.

760
00:40:03,360 --> 00:40:06,200
Soon there is malnutrition followed by disease.

761
00:40:06,200 --> 00:40:09,520
Ultimately, the wild beasts prey upon the weakened people.

762
00:40:09,520 --> 00:40:12,120
Historians tell us that more people died of epidemics

763
00:40:12,120 --> 00:40:14,400
of influenza and typhoid after World War I

764
00:40:14,400 --> 00:40:16,760
than those who actually died in the war itself.

765
00:40:17,880 --> 00:40:20,400
So it could be referring to these types of things,

766
00:40:20,400 --> 00:40:22,340
but there's an interesting alternate theory

767
00:40:22,340 --> 00:40:24,640
of what he means by wild animals.

768
00:40:24,640 --> 00:40:26,520
Is it just wild animals, you know,

769
00:40:30,360 --> 00:40:31,600
I can't think of the word,

770
00:40:32,620 --> 00:40:34,840
coming after people who are weak?

771
00:40:34,840 --> 00:40:35,680
I'll use that.

772
00:40:36,800 --> 00:40:39,280
I can't think of the other word I was gonna say.

773
00:40:39,280 --> 00:40:41,540
But another theory here where they talk about killing

774
00:40:41,540 --> 00:40:44,000
with plague and wild animals is some people think

775
00:40:44,000 --> 00:40:46,120
that these wild animals could be referring

776
00:40:46,120 --> 00:40:51,080
to the most devastating creature on Earth,

777
00:40:51,080 --> 00:40:52,400
and that's rats.

778
00:40:53,400 --> 00:40:54,540
Why?

779
00:40:54,540 --> 00:40:58,160
Rats carry disease, and they carry disease of all kinds.

780
00:40:58,160 --> 00:41:02,020
And rats are prolific in any population center on Earth

781
00:41:02,020 --> 00:41:05,160
where people live, rats live.

782
00:41:05,160 --> 00:41:07,080
And rats carry all these diseases,

783
00:41:07,080 --> 00:41:08,360
and as I mentioned earlier, you know,

784
00:41:08,360 --> 00:41:10,520
we've had precursors throughout history,

785
00:41:10,520 --> 00:41:12,120
and this is just speculative on my part,

786
00:41:12,120 --> 00:41:15,320
but we've had precursors of Antichrist throughout history.

787
00:41:15,320 --> 00:41:17,940
I believe we've had precursors of the type of sickness

788
00:41:17,940 --> 00:41:19,880
and plague that is gonna come upon the Earth

789
00:41:19,880 --> 00:41:21,280
during this tribulation period.

790
00:41:21,280 --> 00:41:22,920
And one of those precursors, I think,

791
00:41:22,920 --> 00:41:24,740
was the Black Plague or the Black Death

792
00:41:24,740 --> 00:41:27,480
in 14th century Europe.

793
00:41:27,480 --> 00:41:29,860
Because what's really interesting about the Black Plague,

794
00:41:29,860 --> 00:41:33,840
which was primarily spread by rats carrying this disease,

795
00:41:33,840 --> 00:41:38,200
is that it killed one fourth of the population of Europe.

796
00:41:38,200 --> 00:41:40,960
Just an interesting detail and connection there.

797
00:41:40,960 --> 00:41:43,140
Speculative, I know, but just an interesting thing

798
00:41:43,140 --> 00:41:43,980
to think about.

799
00:41:45,920 --> 00:41:48,400
But today's population on planet Earth

800
00:41:48,400 --> 00:41:50,920
is just over eight billion people.

801
00:41:52,680 --> 00:41:55,880
So if a fourth of eight billion was to die

802
00:41:55,880 --> 00:41:59,480
in a matter of years, that would be two billion people.

803
00:41:59,480 --> 00:42:03,580
Can you imagine two billion people dying in a matter of

804
00:42:03,580 --> 00:42:06,280
what'll be months and years in the tribulation period?

805
00:42:07,600 --> 00:42:09,280
That's insane.

806
00:42:11,040 --> 00:42:11,880
That's a lot of people.

807
00:42:11,880 --> 00:42:14,560
I mean, over the last few years with COVID,

808
00:42:14,560 --> 00:42:16,240
worldwide deaths related to COVID right now

809
00:42:16,240 --> 00:42:17,920
are about seven million, and people go,

810
00:42:17,920 --> 00:42:20,880
man, that's mind boggling, right?

811
00:42:20,880 --> 00:42:21,840
Seven million.

812
00:42:22,880 --> 00:42:26,160
But what about two billion people losing their lives

813
00:42:26,160 --> 00:42:28,360
through sickness, through malnourishment,

814
00:42:28,360 --> 00:42:31,200
through hunger, through war, through sickness and disease?

815
00:42:31,200 --> 00:42:35,060
That's just insane to think about, but it's gonna happen.

816
00:42:36,000 --> 00:42:38,160
It's gonna happen during the tribulation period.

817
00:42:38,160 --> 00:42:40,600
And so these four horsemen, as I said,

818
00:42:40,600 --> 00:42:43,400
they're kind of a bird's eye snapshot of the horrors

819
00:42:43,400 --> 00:42:45,660
that are gonna take place as God pours out

820
00:42:45,660 --> 00:42:46,960
His judgment on the Earth.

821
00:42:46,960 --> 00:42:49,360
And you might have come to church this morning

822
00:42:49,360 --> 00:42:51,680
expecting to be encouraged,

823
00:42:51,680 --> 00:42:54,320
and all you got was like, dun, dun, dun.

824
00:42:56,120 --> 00:42:58,820
Right, you're like, wow, is that why I came to church?

825
00:43:00,960 --> 00:43:03,360
Why would I teach a message like this, some might ask.

826
00:43:03,360 --> 00:43:05,880
Well, first, the reason I teach a message like this

827
00:43:05,880 --> 00:43:07,700
is because it was next.

828
00:43:07,700 --> 00:43:10,320
We cover the entire Bible here at Hosanna.

829
00:43:10,320 --> 00:43:12,500
We go verse by verse from Genesis

830
00:43:12,500 --> 00:43:13,600
all the way through Revelation,

831
00:43:13,600 --> 00:43:15,120
and we teach every verse of the Bible.

832
00:43:15,120 --> 00:43:17,760
And so we're teaching this because it's next, right?

833
00:43:17,760 --> 00:43:20,060
But more importantly, it's real.

834
00:43:20,060 --> 00:43:22,400
More importantly, it's going to happen.

835
00:43:22,400 --> 00:43:25,480
And just like all the other predictions and prophecies

836
00:43:25,480 --> 00:43:27,560
in the Bible that were spoken before they happened

837
00:43:27,560 --> 00:43:29,660
and then happened just as they were said,

838
00:43:29,660 --> 00:43:32,600
so will this stuff.

839
00:43:32,600 --> 00:43:34,760
Now we've seen these precursors I've been talking about,

840
00:43:34,760 --> 00:43:38,280
these rumblings, these examples of what this stuff

841
00:43:38,280 --> 00:43:40,520
is gonna look like as it unfolds.

842
00:43:40,520 --> 00:43:43,560
I mean, you think about it, just 100 years ago,

843
00:43:43,560 --> 00:43:45,720
who would have imagined that we would have weapons

844
00:43:45,720 --> 00:43:48,180
of warfare that can wipe out billions of people

845
00:43:48,180 --> 00:43:49,920
in a blink of an eye?

846
00:43:49,920 --> 00:43:51,520
That was just an impossible thought.

847
00:43:51,520 --> 00:43:55,080
And now today, the power of nukes that we have today

848
00:43:55,080 --> 00:43:58,040
just dwarf the power of those that were dropped

849
00:43:58,040 --> 00:44:00,800
on Nagasaki and Hiroshima.

850
00:44:00,800 --> 00:44:04,340
And then most recently, the world's done a great job

851
00:44:04,340 --> 00:44:06,280
at reducing, I was looking it up,

852
00:44:06,280 --> 00:44:07,940
I think it was in the mid-80s,

853
00:44:07,940 --> 00:44:09,920
was the peak of how many nuclear warheads

854
00:44:09,920 --> 00:44:10,760
existed in the world.

855
00:44:10,760 --> 00:44:13,960
It was like some 70,000 across all the different countries

856
00:44:13,960 --> 00:44:14,800
that had them.

857
00:44:14,800 --> 00:44:16,440
I'm like, dang, that's a lot of nukes, right?

858
00:44:16,440 --> 00:44:18,560
And then of course, peace treaties

859
00:44:18,560 --> 00:44:20,320
and nonproliferation treaties and stuff,

860
00:44:20,320 --> 00:44:21,680
and we've reduced stockpiles.

861
00:44:21,680 --> 00:44:24,860
And so today, there's about 12,000 nuclear warheads

862
00:44:24,860 --> 00:44:26,320
that exist in the world.

863
00:44:26,320 --> 00:44:28,200
And of course, the United States and Russia

864
00:44:28,200 --> 00:44:29,880
have most of them, right?

865
00:44:29,880 --> 00:44:32,560
And you still go, dang, that's a lot of nukes.

866
00:44:32,560 --> 00:44:34,760
But then you go, okay, but this many of them are in storage.

867
00:44:34,760 --> 00:44:38,460
And so there's all these reduced numbers.

868
00:44:38,460 --> 00:44:39,300
But so what?

869
00:44:39,300 --> 00:44:42,400
One of them could wipe out billions.

870
00:44:43,920 --> 00:44:46,480
One of them could wipe out populations,

871
00:44:46,480 --> 00:44:49,080
and as things have been reducing over the years,

872
00:44:49,080 --> 00:44:51,640
and okay, great, yeah, right, we're finally getting it,

873
00:44:51,640 --> 00:44:55,440
Earth's getting their head on right, let's not launch nukes.

874
00:44:55,440 --> 00:44:57,480
And then last year, when the war in Ukraine broke out,

875
00:44:57,480 --> 00:44:59,080
what was everybody worried about?

876
00:45:00,120 --> 00:45:01,280
Did they have nuclear weapons?

877
00:45:01,280 --> 00:45:03,080
Is Russia trying to get them?

878
00:45:03,080 --> 00:45:05,200
Then you have Putin going, hey, Western countries

879
00:45:05,200 --> 00:45:09,440
don't get involved because I will unleash hell on you guys.

880
00:45:09,440 --> 00:45:10,800
And people are like, oh no, oh no, right?

881
00:45:10,800 --> 00:45:11,640
And then all of a sudden,

882
00:45:11,640 --> 00:45:14,240
we're worried about nuclear war again.

883
00:45:14,240 --> 00:45:15,720
And then you got terrorists running around,

884
00:45:15,720 --> 00:45:18,040
and people talk about dirty bombs and suitcase nukes

885
00:45:18,040 --> 00:45:20,320
and all this stuff, and it's like,

886
00:45:20,320 --> 00:45:24,780
do we really think we have a control on what could happen?

887
00:45:27,000 --> 00:45:29,000
And then like I said, we just went through a pandemic

888
00:45:29,000 --> 00:45:30,840
that affected millions worldwide,

889
00:45:30,840 --> 00:45:33,700
and we're currently going through economic difficulties

890
00:45:33,700 --> 00:45:35,640
that are making it harder and harder for people

891
00:45:35,640 --> 00:45:38,260
to just survive, let alone have luxuries, right?

892
00:45:39,600 --> 00:45:43,160
It's like, cup of noodles isn't just college food anymore

893
00:45:43,160 --> 00:45:44,320
for a lot of people.

894
00:45:45,200 --> 00:45:48,160
It's, you know, Pastor Rick, man,

895
00:45:48,160 --> 00:45:50,920
he gets gourmet with cup of noodles, right?

896
00:45:50,920 --> 00:45:53,600
It's like, let's make it fancy, you know?

897
00:45:53,600 --> 00:45:56,160
But the idea here is all of this

898
00:45:56,160 --> 00:45:59,000
that is happening in our world around us,

899
00:45:59,000 --> 00:46:01,540
it's just a foreshadowing of something worse

900
00:46:01,540 --> 00:46:02,460
that is to come.

901
00:46:02,460 --> 00:46:05,600
Now, I will say very pointedly

902
00:46:05,600 --> 00:46:07,720
that I'm not big on conjecture, right?

903
00:46:07,720 --> 00:46:10,080
I'm not big on, you know, oh my gosh,

904
00:46:10,080 --> 00:46:11,920
this scientific advancement, is that the mark,

905
00:46:11,920 --> 00:46:13,000
and is this the sign, right?

906
00:46:13,000 --> 00:46:14,600
Because we don't know.

907
00:46:14,600 --> 00:46:17,000
And when people get caught up in all this conjecture

908
00:46:17,000 --> 00:46:18,600
about what could be, is that the Antichrist,

909
00:46:18,600 --> 00:46:20,160
is that the sign, is that the mark?

910
00:46:20,160 --> 00:46:21,960
You know, all we end up doing is fighting

911
00:46:21,960 --> 00:46:23,560
and dividing over these things

912
00:46:23,560 --> 00:46:25,560
when we should be united preaching the gospel

913
00:46:25,560 --> 00:46:28,680
so that people come to know Jesus now, right?

914
00:46:28,680 --> 00:46:32,440
And so, I don't necessarily like, you know,

915
00:46:32,440 --> 00:46:34,120
looking at things in the world today and going,

916
00:46:34,120 --> 00:46:35,960
oh, this might be it, and this might be it,

917
00:46:35,960 --> 00:46:38,440
and if you're into that, great, have fun.

918
00:46:38,440 --> 00:46:41,420
And I do understand that there's different views

919
00:46:41,420 --> 00:46:43,280
on the events of the tribulation period,

920
00:46:43,280 --> 00:46:45,600
but I do believe that scripture shows us,

921
00:46:45,600 --> 00:46:47,040
I believe that scripture shows us

922
00:46:47,040 --> 00:46:49,720
that those who have put their faith in Jesus Christ

923
00:46:49,720 --> 00:46:53,040
as their Lord and Savior will be caught up into heaven

924
00:46:53,040 --> 00:46:55,360
before these events take place.

925
00:46:55,360 --> 00:46:56,200
I believe that.

926
00:46:56,200 --> 00:46:58,560
Now, I do know there's disagreement on that,

927
00:46:58,560 --> 00:47:00,680
but you know, I see here in Revelation

928
00:47:00,680 --> 00:47:03,540
that as John is in heaven with the 24 elders

929
00:47:03,540 --> 00:47:05,080
who represent the whole church,

930
00:47:05,080 --> 00:47:06,940
the entirety of the redeemed,

931
00:47:06,940 --> 00:47:10,380
they're observing these things unfold from heaven.

932
00:47:11,300 --> 00:47:12,720
Somebody said to me yesterday, it's like,

933
00:47:12,720 --> 00:47:14,600
yeah, the church has the best seats in the house,

934
00:47:14,600 --> 00:47:16,040
and I'm like, whoa, I don't know

935
00:47:16,040 --> 00:47:17,480
that we want those seats, right?

936
00:47:17,480 --> 00:47:20,100
What we're watching happen is devastating,

937
00:47:20,100 --> 00:47:23,640
but yeah, we're watching this unfold from heaven,

938
00:47:23,640 --> 00:47:25,400
and then of course, we're gonna be the ones

939
00:47:25,400 --> 00:47:27,840
that return with Christ at the conclusion of all of this

940
00:47:27,840 --> 00:47:30,240
where he will end it and establish his kingdom.

941
00:47:32,040 --> 00:47:33,840
But if we're not gonna be here for it,

942
00:47:34,800 --> 00:47:36,200
you might go, why study it?

943
00:47:37,320 --> 00:47:39,040
Like, why do we care?

944
00:47:39,040 --> 00:47:40,400
Why do we care if we're not gonna be here?

945
00:47:40,400 --> 00:47:41,760
Why spend time going through it?

946
00:47:41,760 --> 00:47:45,440
Well, one, as I've been reminded numerous times recently,

947
00:47:45,440 --> 00:47:47,240
because you go back to chapter one of Revelation

948
00:47:47,240 --> 00:47:50,240
and said blessed is he who reads the words of this prophecy.

949
00:47:50,240 --> 00:47:51,480
So we're gonna read it and study it,

950
00:47:51,480 --> 00:47:52,440
whether we're here for it or not,

951
00:47:52,440 --> 00:47:54,520
because we are blessed by doing so.

952
00:47:54,520 --> 00:47:57,160
God blesses his people by reading the words

953
00:47:57,160 --> 00:47:58,380
of this prophecy.

954
00:47:59,480 --> 00:48:01,560
But also, I believe it's to learn the gravity

955
00:48:01,560 --> 00:48:03,400
of how serious God takes sin.

956
00:48:04,960 --> 00:48:09,960
To learn the gravity of how God is gonna respond

957
00:48:10,160 --> 00:48:13,040
to mankind's rejection of him.

958
00:48:13,920 --> 00:48:16,560
And as I said in the opening, to really learn what it means.

959
00:48:16,560 --> 00:48:19,160
I mean, we're gonna see in all of this a picture

960
00:48:19,160 --> 00:48:21,940
of what the wages of sin is death means.

961
00:48:22,880 --> 00:48:26,000
We're gonna see a picture of what it means

962
00:48:26,000 --> 00:48:28,840
when we say God is just or God is a God of justice,

963
00:48:28,840 --> 00:48:31,440
because the judgment he has poured out on the earth

964
00:48:31,440 --> 00:48:35,040
is going to be completely just and completely right.

965
00:48:35,960 --> 00:48:37,720
And so there's that.

966
00:48:37,720 --> 00:48:39,120
But I believe we study these things

967
00:48:39,120 --> 00:48:41,040
because it's also to light a fire of urgency

968
00:48:41,040 --> 00:48:43,220
in our lives as Christians to get to doing the work

969
00:48:43,220 --> 00:48:45,360
we are called to do now.

970
00:48:45,360 --> 00:48:48,800
We are called as God's people to be the light on the hill.

971
00:48:48,800 --> 00:48:50,540
To proclaim the gospel.

972
00:48:50,540 --> 00:48:53,120
To preach hope to those that don't have it.

973
00:48:53,120 --> 00:48:55,080
To bring the message of salvation

974
00:48:55,080 --> 00:48:57,120
to those that need it so badly.

975
00:48:57,120 --> 00:48:58,600
We're called to do that.

976
00:48:58,600 --> 00:49:01,320
To see those who don't know Jesus Christ as their savior

977
00:49:01,320 --> 00:49:04,200
come to know him as savior.

978
00:49:04,200 --> 00:49:06,400
And to be saved from the wrath to come

979
00:49:06,400 --> 00:49:08,040
on those who reject him.

980
00:49:08,920 --> 00:49:11,360
That's why I think we have this here.

981
00:49:11,360 --> 00:49:13,040
To read it, to study it, to know it.

982
00:49:13,040 --> 00:49:15,400
Because God's desire, the Bible tells us,

983
00:49:15,400 --> 00:49:17,580
for his kids is not wrath,

984
00:49:18,660 --> 00:49:20,880
but it's to obtain salvation.

985
00:49:22,200 --> 00:49:24,780
And so, yeah, we can get caught up in the details

986
00:49:24,780 --> 00:49:25,920
of the tribulation period.

987
00:49:25,920 --> 00:49:28,120
We can get consumed in conjecture.

988
00:49:28,120 --> 00:49:31,760
We could get caught up in speculation on this or that.

989
00:49:32,900 --> 00:49:34,640
We can let ourselves get into arguments

990
00:49:34,640 --> 00:49:35,960
over the timing of the rapture

991
00:49:35,960 --> 00:49:37,760
and the interpretation of revelation.

992
00:49:37,760 --> 00:49:39,100
Are we in the tribulation already?

993
00:49:39,100 --> 00:49:40,280
Is it to come still?

994
00:49:40,280 --> 00:49:42,280
All this stuff.

995
00:49:42,280 --> 00:49:44,880
But my goal as your pastor here at Hosanna

996
00:49:44,880 --> 00:49:46,680
is to teach what I see in scripture,

997
00:49:46,680 --> 00:49:48,720
to teach what I believe scripture is saying.

998
00:49:48,720 --> 00:49:50,560
And ultimately, when it comes to a lot of this,

999
00:49:50,560 --> 00:49:52,740
I do fully recognize that we're not gonna know, really,

1000
00:49:52,740 --> 00:49:54,600
until it happens.

1001
00:49:54,600 --> 00:49:56,320
That's one of the things about prophecy, right?

1002
00:49:56,320 --> 00:49:57,440
It was like, we think it could be this,

1003
00:49:57,440 --> 00:49:58,280
we think it could be this.

1004
00:49:58,280 --> 00:49:59,100
Well, guess what?

1005
00:49:59,100 --> 00:50:00,320
We'll know when we get there.

1006
00:50:03,080 --> 00:50:05,520
I personally believe in a pre-tribulation rapture.

1007
00:50:05,520 --> 00:50:07,200
I know many like, no, I think it's mid,

1008
00:50:07,200 --> 00:50:08,020
I think it's post.

1009
00:50:08,020 --> 00:50:08,860
Guess what?

1010
00:50:08,860 --> 00:50:09,700
We'll know when it happens.

1011
00:50:11,080 --> 00:50:12,900
But how about today you and I lock arms

1012
00:50:12,900 --> 00:50:15,200
and preach the gospel to see people get saved?

1013
00:50:17,520 --> 00:50:19,200
I do believe the tribulation is future.

1014
00:50:19,200 --> 00:50:21,540
I do believe it's a definite seven-year period

1015
00:50:21,540 --> 00:50:22,800
of time in Earth's history.

1016
00:50:22,800 --> 00:50:25,400
And I do believe that those who put their faith in Christ

1017
00:50:25,400 --> 00:50:26,540
won't be here for it.

1018
00:50:27,560 --> 00:50:31,060
But regardless, we study things like the Antichrist

1019
00:50:31,060 --> 00:50:33,800
so that we know more clearly the authentic, right?

1020
00:50:33,800 --> 00:50:37,780
That's how people start to learn the real and the counterfeit.

1021
00:50:37,780 --> 00:50:40,260
When people that are becoming experts in counterfeit,

1022
00:50:40,260 --> 00:50:41,640
in identifying counterfeits,

1023
00:50:41,640 --> 00:50:44,760
what they do is they look towards the real thing.

1024
00:50:44,760 --> 00:50:46,020
They look towards the real thing.

1025
00:50:46,020 --> 00:50:48,240
They become an expert in the real thing

1026
00:50:48,240 --> 00:50:50,020
so that then they could recognize the counterfeit

1027
00:50:50,020 --> 00:50:51,480
when it presents itself.

1028
00:50:51,480 --> 00:50:54,000
And although we're gonna be studying things

1029
00:50:54,000 --> 00:50:57,040
about the Antichrist and tribulation and all of that,

1030
00:50:57,040 --> 00:51:00,800
we are not to be people looking for the Antichrist.

1031
00:51:00,800 --> 00:51:02,880
We are to be people looking for the return

1032
00:51:02,880 --> 00:51:05,540
of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

1033
00:51:05,540 --> 00:51:07,760
To be eagerly waiting His appearing,

1034
00:51:07,760 --> 00:51:09,960
to be people who love His appearing.

1035
00:51:09,960 --> 00:51:11,380
Not to get caught up, is that the mark?

1036
00:51:11,380 --> 00:51:12,220
Is that the mark?

1037
00:51:12,220 --> 00:51:13,660
Is that the mark?

1038
00:51:13,660 --> 00:51:15,840
The mark's gonna be something,

1039
00:51:15,840 --> 00:51:17,360
but we're not gonna be here for it.

1040
00:51:18,720 --> 00:51:20,560
What we are to be looking forward to

1041
00:51:20,560 --> 00:51:22,040
is Jesus and His return.

1042
00:51:22,040 --> 00:51:24,840
And God has the future under control.

1043
00:51:24,840 --> 00:51:26,240
We don't have to look at the future

1044
00:51:26,240 --> 00:51:27,520
as His kids with fear.

1045
00:51:27,520 --> 00:51:28,720
Yes, things are scary.

1046
00:51:28,720 --> 00:51:29,800
Yes, things are scary now.

1047
00:51:29,800 --> 00:51:31,680
Yes, they're gonna get even worse then.

1048
00:51:31,680 --> 00:51:33,600
But God has it all under control

1049
00:51:33,600 --> 00:51:35,600
because He is sovereign.

1050
00:51:35,600 --> 00:51:37,440
He is God Almighty.

1051
00:51:37,440 --> 00:51:39,400
And for those of you that don't know Jesus Christ

1052
00:51:39,400 --> 00:51:40,520
as your Lord and Savior today,

1053
00:51:40,520 --> 00:51:41,480
if you're sitting in this room

1054
00:51:41,480 --> 00:51:44,200
and you've never accepted Jesus as your Lord and Savior,

1055
00:51:44,200 --> 00:51:45,280
if you're watching online

1056
00:51:45,280 --> 00:51:48,200
and you've never accepted Christ as your Lord and Savior,

1057
00:51:48,200 --> 00:51:49,040
I'm telling you this,

1058
00:51:49,040 --> 00:51:52,600
the time is coming where God is going to judge the earth

1059
00:51:52,600 --> 00:51:54,040
for its rejection of Him.

1060
00:51:55,000 --> 00:51:57,060
Where God is going to judge the earth

1061
00:51:57,060 --> 00:52:00,440
and purge the earth for its rebellion.

1062
00:52:00,440 --> 00:52:03,160
And that is all gonna come through a false Christ,

1063
00:52:03,160 --> 00:52:05,000
an anti-Christ, a world leader

1064
00:52:05,000 --> 00:52:06,080
who's gonna come on the scene

1065
00:52:06,080 --> 00:52:07,600
and he's gonna trick everybody

1066
00:52:07,600 --> 00:52:09,440
who doesn't know the difference.

1067
00:52:11,320 --> 00:52:12,720
And they're gonna think He's the hero,

1068
00:52:12,720 --> 00:52:16,320
but He is not because the anti-Christ is a liar.

1069
00:52:16,320 --> 00:52:17,680
He is a deceiver.

1070
00:52:17,680 --> 00:52:20,720
He promises peace, but He delivers war.

1071
00:52:20,720 --> 00:52:22,960
But the authentic Jesus Christ,

1072
00:52:22,960 --> 00:52:25,240
He's called faithful and true.

1073
00:52:25,240 --> 00:52:27,320
He is the one who is called the Prince of Peace

1074
00:52:27,320 --> 00:52:28,640
and He promises peace

1075
00:52:28,640 --> 00:52:32,080
and He truly delivers lasting peace.

1076
00:52:32,080 --> 00:52:34,040
The anti-Christ not only brings war,

1077
00:52:34,040 --> 00:52:36,200
but famine and death.

1078
00:52:36,200 --> 00:52:38,880
Jesus said, I am the bread of life.

1079
00:52:38,880 --> 00:52:40,920
Whoever comes to me will never hunger.

1080
00:52:42,540 --> 00:52:44,160
The anti-Christ will be everything

1081
00:52:44,160 --> 00:52:47,720
that the unsaved and the unrighteous want.

1082
00:52:47,720 --> 00:52:49,680
But Jesus Christ is everything we need.

1083
00:52:50,620 --> 00:52:53,120
He is everything we need and you do need Him

1084
00:52:53,120 --> 00:52:54,080
and we need Him.

1085
00:52:54,080 --> 00:52:55,480
And I'm gonna give you an opportunity right now

1086
00:52:55,480 --> 00:52:56,960
to receive Him as your Lord and Savior

1087
00:52:56,960 --> 00:52:58,700
if you don't know Jesus.

1088
00:52:58,700 --> 00:53:01,080
After, we're gonna celebrate communion together as a body,

1089
00:53:01,080 --> 00:53:02,760
but please pray with me right now.

1090
00:53:02,760 --> 00:53:06,280
Father God, we pray for any in this room this morning,

1091
00:53:06,280 --> 00:53:07,680
whether they're here physically with us

1092
00:53:07,680 --> 00:53:08,960
or watching us online, God,

1093
00:53:08,960 --> 00:53:11,920
that don't know You as their Lord and Savior.

1094
00:53:11,920 --> 00:53:15,120
God, they have never taken that step, Lord,

1095
00:53:15,120 --> 00:53:18,840
to receive You, to put their faith in You, Lord,

1096
00:53:18,840 --> 00:53:21,680
to confess the truth that they believe You are God,

1097
00:53:21,680 --> 00:53:23,040
that You died on the cross for them,

1098
00:53:23,040 --> 00:53:24,540
to pay the price for their sin, God,

1099
00:53:24,540 --> 00:53:27,080
that even You were a precursor

1100
00:53:27,080 --> 00:53:28,960
of what's gonna take place on earth, Lord,

1101
00:53:28,960 --> 00:53:31,480
as the entire wrath of God was poured out on You

1102
00:53:31,480 --> 00:53:33,680
on the cross for our sin.

1103
00:53:33,680 --> 00:53:35,400
Lord, there may be some here today

1104
00:53:35,400 --> 00:53:37,240
that have never put their faith in that

1105
00:53:37,240 --> 00:53:40,280
and because of that have never received salvation.

1106
00:53:40,280 --> 00:53:42,320
And so while we're praying with heads bowed and eyes closed,

1107
00:53:42,320 --> 00:53:45,020
if you wanna receive Jesus this morning,

1108
00:53:46,240 --> 00:53:49,120
we are still in the time of grace, the church age,

1109
00:53:49,120 --> 00:53:51,480
prior to the wrath and this judgment

1110
00:53:51,480 --> 00:53:52,320
being poured out on earth

1111
00:53:52,320 --> 00:53:56,800
and you have an opportunity today to be saved,

1112
00:53:56,800 --> 00:53:59,800
to be forgiven, to be transformed and set free.

1113
00:53:59,800 --> 00:54:01,120
And so if you're sitting in this room

1114
00:54:01,120 --> 00:54:02,560
and you wanna receive Jesus this morning,

1115
00:54:02,560 --> 00:54:04,240
just raise your hand where I can see it

1116
00:54:04,240 --> 00:54:06,000
and let me pray with you.

1117
00:54:06,000 --> 00:54:06,980
God bless you on the side.

1118
00:54:06,980 --> 00:54:07,820
Anybody else?

1119
00:54:07,820 --> 00:54:09,240
I see you too.

1120
00:54:09,240 --> 00:54:10,320
Anybody else in the back?

1121
00:54:10,320 --> 00:54:11,160
I see you too.

1122
00:54:11,160 --> 00:54:12,320
God is speaking to you this morning.

1123
00:54:12,320 --> 00:54:14,160
You need Christ.

1124
00:54:14,160 --> 00:54:16,600
You need salvation and He is offering it to you

1125
00:54:16,600 --> 00:54:19,600
freely this morning because He loves you so much.

1126
00:54:20,600 --> 00:54:21,800
If you haven't raised your hand yet

1127
00:54:21,800 --> 00:54:23,280
and you wanna receive Jesus this morning,

1128
00:54:23,280 --> 00:54:25,940
just do so, let me see it so I can pray with you.

1129
00:54:25,940 --> 00:54:28,760
If you're online, obviously I can't see you,

1130
00:54:28,760 --> 00:54:30,600
but let us know in chat.

1131
00:54:30,600 --> 00:54:32,040
Just type in a quick message,

1132
00:54:32,040 --> 00:54:34,720
I wanna receive Jesus this morning.

1133
00:54:34,720 --> 00:54:35,700
Anybody else in this room?

1134
00:54:35,700 --> 00:54:39,960
God is speaking to you right now.

1135
00:54:39,960 --> 00:54:41,440
All right, those of you that raised your hand,

1136
00:54:41,440 --> 00:54:43,000
I want you to pray with me if you're online

1137
00:54:43,000 --> 00:54:44,400
and you're receiving Jesus this morning,

1138
00:54:44,400 --> 00:54:46,120
I want you to pray with me right now.

1139
00:54:46,120 --> 00:54:47,640
Just say, Father God,

1140
00:54:49,500 --> 00:54:50,620
I believe in you.

1141
00:54:52,540 --> 00:54:53,720
I believe you are God.

1142
00:54:56,040 --> 00:54:57,640
I believe you came to this earth.

1143
00:54:59,320 --> 00:55:01,520
I believe you died for me on the cross.

1144
00:55:01,520 --> 00:55:06,520
I believe you died for me to pay the price for my sin.

1145
00:55:09,000 --> 00:55:10,520
I believe in what you say.

1146
00:55:12,160 --> 00:55:14,800
I believe that I deserved judgment.

1147
00:55:14,800 --> 00:55:16,840
I deserve judgment.

1148
00:55:18,240 --> 00:55:21,800
But God, I cry out to you for salvation.

1149
00:55:22,920 --> 00:55:24,600
Forgive me of all of my sin.

1150
00:55:25,920 --> 00:55:27,040
Come into my life.

1151
00:55:28,240 --> 00:55:30,040
Be my Lord, be my Savior.

1152
00:55:30,040 --> 00:55:32,800
Be my Master, be my friend.

1153
00:55:34,120 --> 00:55:38,080
Teach me how to live in a way that glorifies you.

1154
00:55:39,640 --> 00:55:42,240
Thank you for saving me from the wrath to come.

1155
00:55:44,120 --> 00:55:46,280
Help me to tell others about you,

1156
00:55:47,480 --> 00:55:49,120
that they may be saved as well.

1157
00:55:50,400 --> 00:55:52,720
Fill me with your Holy Spirit, Lord.

1158
00:55:52,720 --> 00:55:54,560
Empower me to serve you.

1159
00:55:54,560 --> 00:55:59,560
In Jesus' name I pray, amen.

1160
00:56:00,680 --> 00:56:02,080
Well, God bless you guys.

1161
00:56:04,080 --> 00:56:09,080
So those of you that received Christ this morning

1162
00:56:09,080 --> 00:56:11,080
here in the room, we have some,

1163
00:56:11,080 --> 00:56:12,880
we call them new believers packets up here,

1164
00:56:12,880 --> 00:56:15,360
and it's really just a set of tools

1165
00:56:15,360 --> 00:56:16,680
to encourage you on this walk,

1166
00:56:16,680 --> 00:56:20,040
this relationship that you started with Jesus, right?

1167
00:56:20,040 --> 00:56:22,800
It's about getting into the word and reading and do that.

1168
00:56:22,800 --> 00:56:25,000
It's about worshiping God, it's about telling people

1169
00:56:25,000 --> 00:56:26,520
what God has done in your life.

1170
00:56:26,520 --> 00:56:28,520
And so we have these packets up here.

1171
00:56:28,520 --> 00:56:29,880
Please don't leave here today,

1172
00:56:29,880 --> 00:56:31,800
either up front or out in the foyer.

1173
00:56:31,800 --> 00:56:33,200
If you're online and you gave your life

1174
00:56:33,200 --> 00:56:35,400
to Christ this morning, let us know in chat

1175
00:56:35,400 --> 00:56:36,840
and we will mail you one of these packets

1176
00:56:36,840 --> 00:56:39,320
because we wanna be here and walk with you

1177
00:56:39,320 --> 00:56:41,000
through this journey you're on.

1178
00:56:41,000 --> 00:56:43,880
You have been saved, you have been forgiven.

1179
00:56:43,880 --> 00:56:45,880
The Bible tells us that the entire host of heaven

1180
00:56:45,880 --> 00:56:48,440
are celebrating right now because your soul has been saved.

1181
00:56:48,440 --> 00:56:50,640
Hallelujah, that is glorious.

1182
00:56:50,640 --> 00:56:53,040
And so welcome to the family of God.

1183
00:56:53,040 --> 00:56:58,040
And so we're gonna close today,

1184
00:56:58,240 --> 00:57:00,480
and those of you that received Christ today,

1185
00:57:00,480 --> 00:57:02,760
you get to participate in this with us.

1186
00:57:02,760 --> 00:57:04,720
We're gonna celebrate communion.

1187
00:57:05,720 --> 00:57:08,160
And we wanna close today with this because in communion,

1188
00:57:08,160 --> 00:57:11,040
it's us fixing our eyes on Jesus.

1189
00:57:11,040 --> 00:57:13,760
It's us focusing on Jesus, not the antichrist,

1190
00:57:13,760 --> 00:57:15,400
not this, not the other things.

1191
00:57:15,400 --> 00:57:18,960
It's us fixing our eyes on who he is.

1192
00:57:18,960 --> 00:57:20,760
You know, because he's the one that made the way

1193
00:57:20,760 --> 00:57:22,440
to be right with God.

1194
00:57:22,440 --> 00:57:24,240
We recognize that, we remember that.

1195
00:57:24,240 --> 00:57:27,880
He's the one that made the way for our sin to be forgiven,

1196
00:57:27,880 --> 00:57:30,320
and communion is a time where we remember that.

1197
00:57:30,320 --> 00:57:33,680
He's the one that made the way to obtain salvation

1198
00:57:33,680 --> 00:57:35,200
and not the wrath of God.

1199
00:57:35,200 --> 00:57:37,400
And communion is where we as the body of Christ

1200
00:57:37,400 --> 00:57:39,840
get to celebrate that, to remember that together

1201
00:57:39,840 --> 00:57:42,800
as we eagerly await his coming.

1202
00:57:42,800 --> 00:57:47,160
And so when Jesus originally took the bread, right,

1203
00:57:47,160 --> 00:57:48,520
oh, actually, let me explain these cups to you.

1204
00:57:48,520 --> 00:57:50,960
If you're new in here, you should have one of these cups.

1205
00:57:50,960 --> 00:57:52,600
Okay, if you don't, please raise your hand

1206
00:57:52,600 --> 00:57:53,760
real nice and high right now,

1207
00:57:53,760 --> 00:57:55,920
and our elders will get you one real quick.

1208
00:57:55,920 --> 00:57:57,760
Keep it up until you have a cup in your hand.

1209
00:57:57,760 --> 00:57:58,680
Okay, great.

1210
00:57:59,560 --> 00:58:01,600
All right, over here on the side as well.

1211
00:58:01,600 --> 00:58:03,640
There is a tray right behind you right there

1212
00:58:03,640 --> 00:58:06,080
if you wanna grab to that gold tray.

1213
00:58:07,240 --> 00:58:08,400
Awesome, all right.

1214
00:58:08,400 --> 00:58:09,600
So those of you that have this,

1215
00:58:09,600 --> 00:58:11,760
there's a thick plastic tab on the end,

1216
00:58:11,760 --> 00:58:14,160
and above that tab is a very thin plastic tab.

1217
00:58:14,160 --> 00:58:16,560
If you pull back that thin plastic tab,

1218
00:58:16,560 --> 00:58:18,960
what it's gonna do is reveal the bread here

1219
00:58:18,960 --> 00:58:20,680
at the top of this communion cup.

1220
00:58:21,680 --> 00:58:23,400
And so when Jesus took this bread

1221
00:58:23,400 --> 00:58:26,000
when he was with his disciples on that last night,

1222
00:58:26,000 --> 00:58:27,520
he gave thanks, it tells us,

1223
00:58:27,520 --> 00:58:29,000
and it says he broke the bread,

1224
00:58:29,000 --> 00:58:33,160
and he said, this is my body, which is given for you.

1225
00:58:34,320 --> 00:58:36,800
You see, the horror, the devastation

1226
00:58:36,800 --> 00:58:40,200
that we see on the cross and what Jesus went through,

1227
00:58:40,200 --> 00:58:43,360
that was the wrath of God being poured out on sin.

1228
00:58:43,360 --> 00:58:45,680
Now Jesus was one without sin,

1229
00:58:46,880 --> 00:58:49,080
but the Bible tells us he became sin for us,

1230
00:58:49,080 --> 00:58:53,080
that he literally became your sin and my sin,

1231
00:58:53,080 --> 00:58:55,800
so that God, being a God of justice,

1232
00:58:55,800 --> 00:58:59,160
could pour out his justice and his wrath on that sin.

1233
00:58:59,160 --> 00:59:01,680
You see, it wouldn't be fair if God said,

1234
00:59:01,680 --> 00:59:03,840
here's my rules, and you do this, you get into heaven,

1235
00:59:03,840 --> 00:59:06,080
and you don't do that, you don't get into heaven,

1236
00:59:06,080 --> 00:59:07,760
and if he set all that up that way

1237
00:59:07,760 --> 00:59:09,240
and was like, okay, here it is,

1238
00:59:09,240 --> 00:59:10,480
and then we broke all the rules,

1239
00:59:10,480 --> 00:59:12,720
and he went, ah, you can come in anyway,

1240
00:59:12,720 --> 00:59:14,800
you can come in anyways.

1241
00:59:14,800 --> 00:59:15,880
How would the person who's like,

1242
00:59:15,880 --> 00:59:18,160
God, I lived my life trying to be obedient to you,

1243
00:59:18,160 --> 00:59:19,800
and this person just denied all of it,

1244
00:59:19,800 --> 00:59:20,960
and you're just gonna let him in anyways?

1245
00:59:20,960 --> 00:59:23,520
That's not fair, that's not just.

1246
00:59:23,520 --> 00:59:25,680
Or if there was a judge sitting behind the bench,

1247
00:59:25,680 --> 00:59:26,840
and you went into the courtroom,

1248
00:59:26,840 --> 00:59:28,160
and you were fully guilty, and they're like,

1249
00:59:28,160 --> 00:59:31,440
here's the mountains of evidence, right?

1250
00:59:31,440 --> 00:59:32,840
And the judge went, you know what,

1251
00:59:32,840 --> 00:59:34,640
I'm just gonna let you go.

1252
00:59:34,640 --> 00:59:37,640
We would say that judge isn't just.

1253
00:59:37,640 --> 00:59:39,040
We would say that's not justice,

1254
00:59:39,040 --> 00:59:42,800
so God had to judge sin because he is just.

1255
00:59:44,360 --> 00:59:47,240
It's just Jesus stepped into your place and my place,

1256
00:59:47,240 --> 00:59:49,760
and it was his body that was just devastated

1257
00:59:49,760 --> 00:59:52,440
through the crucifixion and all that took place there.

1258
00:59:52,440 --> 00:59:55,000
And so in communion, when we take this bread,

1259
00:59:55,000 --> 00:59:57,400
he wants us to remember this bread.

1260
00:59:57,400 --> 01:00:00,000
As he said, look, this is my body.

1261
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:00,840
It's given for you.

1262
01:00:00,840 --> 01:00:04,240
He wanted us to remember that he stepped into our place

1263
01:00:04,240 --> 01:00:05,600
to take the wrath of God.

1264
01:00:05,600 --> 01:00:07,160
He took the full wrath of God

1265
01:00:07,160 --> 01:00:08,640
and all sin and unrighteousness.

1266
01:00:08,640 --> 01:00:12,240
He took the full judgment of God upon himself.

1267
01:00:13,360 --> 01:00:15,200
The judgment that we're gonna see in the future

1268
01:00:15,200 --> 01:00:18,680
during the tribulation, but right now in this time,

1269
01:00:18,680 --> 01:00:21,720
this age of grace, God said, I took it for you

1270
01:00:21,720 --> 01:00:23,600
so that you could be forgiven.

1271
01:00:24,760 --> 01:00:28,200
So that death penalty that you owed in the courtroom,

1272
01:00:28,200 --> 01:00:30,800
I went and I died on the electric chair, so to speak.

1273
01:00:30,800 --> 01:00:33,920
I paid it so that the judge can be like,

1274
01:00:33,920 --> 01:00:37,020
justice has been served, and I can let you go free.

1275
01:00:37,020 --> 01:00:41,340
He says, remember that, remember that.

1276
01:00:41,340 --> 01:00:42,740
That's what we do with this bread.

1277
01:00:42,740 --> 01:00:46,180
It's a judgment that we deserve for breaking his law.

1278
01:00:46,180 --> 01:00:48,420
It's a judgment that should have fell upon us.

1279
01:00:48,420 --> 01:00:50,420
It's the judgment that's gonna fall upon the earth

1280
01:00:50,420 --> 01:00:51,420
during the tribulation period,

1281
01:00:51,420 --> 01:00:54,580
but because he loved you and me so much,

1282
01:00:54,580 --> 01:00:56,540
he stepped into our place.

1283
01:00:56,540 --> 01:01:00,820
He took it all so that we can obtain salvation now,

1284
01:01:01,940 --> 01:01:05,140
so that we could have the hope and the promise of heaven now.

1285
01:01:05,140 --> 01:01:08,220
He bled, he suffered, that we might be forgiven

1286
01:01:08,220 --> 01:01:11,500
through our confession of faith in Jesus Christ.

1287
01:01:11,500 --> 01:01:13,600
And that confession of faith is what led

1288
01:01:13,600 --> 01:01:15,400
to our adoption into his family.

1289
01:01:16,500 --> 01:01:20,260
It's what led to us being called the children of God

1290
01:01:20,260 --> 01:01:22,660
as we opened in worship today.

1291
01:01:22,660 --> 01:01:26,660
That we are his, not sufferers of the wrath to come,

1292
01:01:26,660 --> 01:01:28,780
but forgiven and free with the promise of heaven.

1293
01:01:28,780 --> 01:01:29,820
Hallelujah.

1294
01:01:31,420 --> 01:01:32,540
This is the truth.

1295
01:01:32,540 --> 01:01:36,420
He is the way to eternal life and nothing else will do.

1296
01:01:36,420 --> 01:01:40,540
It's our faith in Jesus and what he did on the cross for us.

1297
01:01:40,540 --> 01:01:44,340
Father, we're so grateful to you for what you did for us.

1298
01:01:44,340 --> 01:01:46,500
We are so grateful for your death on the cross, Lord.

1299
01:01:46,500 --> 01:01:49,580
We are so grateful that you stepped into our place.

1300
01:01:51,140 --> 01:01:53,980
Lord, the horrors of the cross,

1301
01:01:53,980 --> 01:01:56,340
the horrors of what you went through in your body

1302
01:01:56,340 --> 01:01:58,540
as you went through the scourging and the beatings

1303
01:01:58,540 --> 01:02:03,540
and the crucifixion, the horror of all of that, it was for us.

1304
01:02:08,420 --> 01:02:10,420
We deserve to go through that, not you.

1305
01:02:12,060 --> 01:02:14,620
But you stepped into our place because you love us.

1306
01:02:16,740 --> 01:02:20,100
God, you stepped in the path of the judgment of sin

1307
01:02:20,100 --> 01:02:21,340
because you loved us.

1308
01:02:21,340 --> 01:02:23,300
You took it upon yourself because you loved us.

1309
01:02:23,300 --> 01:02:25,660
God, we are so thankful and we remember that today, God.

1310
01:02:25,660 --> 01:02:28,280
Even as we're studying what's gonna come upon the earth

1311
01:02:28,280 --> 01:02:30,100
during the tribulation period, Lord,

1312
01:02:30,100 --> 01:02:33,060
we say thank you, God, that you have saved us.

1313
01:02:36,140 --> 01:02:37,340
So Lord, thank you.

1314
01:02:38,380 --> 01:02:39,460
Thank you for saving us.

1315
01:02:39,460 --> 01:02:42,980
Thank you for taking our judgment on yourself.

1316
01:02:42,980 --> 01:02:44,180
Let's partake together.

1317
01:02:53,820 --> 01:02:56,900
So if you're in the room, again, that thicker tab,

1318
01:02:56,900 --> 01:02:59,180
just very carefully pull that back

1319
01:03:00,100 --> 01:03:03,640
and this will reveal the juice here in the cup.

1320
01:03:05,300 --> 01:03:07,660
In that same moment as Jesus took that bread,

1321
01:03:07,660 --> 01:03:09,620
he also, it tells us, took the cup

1322
01:03:10,640 --> 01:03:12,180
and he looked at his disciples and he said,

1323
01:03:12,180 --> 01:03:17,180
this cup represents the new covenant in my blood.

1324
01:03:20,780 --> 01:03:23,820
You see, prior to that, the covenant was you sinned,

1325
01:03:23,820 --> 01:03:26,500
you showed up, you made a sacrifice, it got covered,

1326
01:03:26,500 --> 01:03:28,300
you went away, you sinned again, you showed up,

1327
01:03:28,300 --> 01:03:29,860
you made a sacrifice, it got covered

1328
01:03:29,860 --> 01:03:32,540
and there was this perpetual relationship

1329
01:03:32,540 --> 01:03:35,460
of my sin isn't gone, my sin isn't dealt with,

1330
01:03:35,460 --> 01:03:37,020
I haven't been permanently forgiven,

1331
01:03:37,020 --> 01:03:38,900
I'm just temporarily covered

1332
01:03:39,920 --> 01:03:42,260
by the blood of a sheep or a goat or whatever.

1333
01:03:43,260 --> 01:03:45,980
But he says, look, I've come to establish a new covenant

1334
01:03:45,980 --> 01:03:48,660
and he said, do this in remembrance of me

1335
01:03:48,660 --> 01:03:50,820
because it wasn't just his body that was broken for us,

1336
01:03:50,820 --> 01:03:52,660
he shed his blood

1337
01:03:52,660 --> 01:03:57,620
and God's word tells us that it was the shedding of blood

1338
01:03:57,620 --> 01:03:59,740
which was required for the remission of sin

1339
01:04:01,220 --> 01:04:03,500
and so he was one that was the perfect sacrifice,

1340
01:04:03,500 --> 01:04:05,620
the one on the altar of atonement,

1341
01:04:05,620 --> 01:04:08,260
the one that paid that price and he wanted us to remember

1342
01:04:08,260 --> 01:04:11,460
that as his blood was shed, it washed us clean,

1343
01:04:13,220 --> 01:04:15,140
that we were to remember that clean slate,

1344
01:04:15,140 --> 01:04:17,740
that unblemished record, that restored fellowship with God

1345
01:04:17,740 --> 01:04:19,980
that his shed blood purchased for us

1346
01:04:19,980 --> 01:04:21,900
and so when we think that, again,

1347
01:04:21,900 --> 01:04:23,700
we're people who didn't deserve that,

1348
01:04:23,700 --> 01:04:26,420
we didn't earn it, there was nothing we could do to earn it

1349
01:04:27,460 --> 01:04:30,220
but again, God's desire is not wrath for mankind,

1350
01:04:30,220 --> 01:04:33,060
his desire is that we would obtain salvation

1351
01:04:33,060 --> 01:04:34,700
and so as he paid that price,

1352
01:04:34,700 --> 01:04:36,900
as his desire is that all would be saved,

1353
01:04:36,900 --> 01:04:39,620
that is why he came and he died and he shed his blood for us

1354
01:04:39,620 --> 01:04:41,700
that we would be able to then benefit

1355
01:04:43,060 --> 01:04:46,620
from his sacrifice, to benefit from what he did for us

1356
01:04:46,620 --> 01:04:48,820
and he really is then our God,

1357
01:04:48,820 --> 01:04:50,820
and he really is then our only hope

1358
01:04:50,820 --> 01:04:52,700
and the only hope of the entire world

1359
01:04:52,700 --> 01:04:55,060
and the only hope of salvation

1360
01:04:55,060 --> 01:04:57,940
and salvation only comes through faith in his shed blood

1361
01:04:57,940 --> 01:04:59,020
and what he did for us

1362
01:04:59,020 --> 01:05:02,420
and that is what we remember in the juice of communion.

1363
01:05:04,140 --> 01:05:07,140
It's because we've been cleansed by his shed blood,

1364
01:05:08,140 --> 01:05:10,020
it's because we've been forgiven and set free

1365
01:05:10,020 --> 01:05:12,900
that we are people who eagerly look forward to his coming.

1366
01:05:14,580 --> 01:05:16,260
We don't look forward to the wrath,

1367
01:05:16,260 --> 01:05:18,180
we don't expect the wrath to fall upon us,

1368
01:05:18,180 --> 01:05:20,380
we look forward to being called out of it,

1369
01:05:22,180 --> 01:05:24,820
to be people clothed with his robes of righteousness

1370
01:05:24,820 --> 01:05:26,780
and as we wait for that return,

1371
01:05:26,780 --> 01:05:27,900
as we wait for that call,

1372
01:05:27,900 --> 01:05:30,100
as we wait for him to come for us,

1373
01:05:30,820 --> 01:05:32,980
we are people then that live

1374
01:05:32,980 --> 01:05:34,100
and get the opportunity to live

1375
01:05:34,100 --> 01:05:36,020
in expressing our gratitude for him

1376
01:05:36,020 --> 01:05:38,460
for the salvation he's given us and how do we do that?

1377
01:05:39,460 --> 01:05:41,540
Well by loving him first and foremost,

1378
01:05:41,540 --> 01:05:46,540
by living for him, by living in obedience to him

1379
01:05:46,540 --> 01:05:49,140
and by telling everybody we can

1380
01:05:49,140 --> 01:05:51,580
about the salvation that is available in him.

1381
01:05:52,780 --> 01:05:55,060
This is what we remember here in communion

1382
01:05:56,020 --> 01:05:59,260
and so Father, we thank you God for your shed blood.

1383
01:06:01,260 --> 01:06:04,620
Lord it wasn't just you taking our punishment

1384
01:06:06,820 --> 01:06:09,660
but then you washed us clean, you made us spotless,

1385
01:06:09,660 --> 01:06:14,660
you clothed us in your righteousness,

1386
01:06:15,580 --> 01:06:17,780
you clothed us in your perfection God

1387
01:06:17,780 --> 01:06:19,540
and Lord we don't deserve that

1388
01:06:21,060 --> 01:06:23,260
but we receive it because it is our only hope

1389
01:06:23,260 --> 01:06:26,420
and we're so grateful and we say thank you for it God.

1390
01:06:26,420 --> 01:06:31,300
May we be people who live in that spotlessness,

1391
01:06:31,300 --> 01:06:34,940
may we be people who choose obedience Lord.

1392
01:06:36,620 --> 01:06:38,580
But God we have these moments because we know

1393
01:06:38,580 --> 01:06:40,740
that even in living a life of choosing obedience,

1394
01:06:40,740 --> 01:06:42,740
sometimes we stumble, sometimes we fall,

1395
01:06:42,740 --> 01:06:45,660
sometimes we mess up and God all we need to do

1396
01:06:45,660 --> 01:06:48,340
is remember the shed blood that washed us clean

1397
01:06:48,340 --> 01:06:51,020
from all sin to come back to that place

1398
01:06:51,020 --> 01:06:53,580
of saying thank you God for saving me,

1399
01:06:53,580 --> 01:06:55,180
thank you for paying that price.

1400
01:06:56,740 --> 01:07:00,060
And so Lord we love you, we thank you,

1401
01:07:00,060 --> 01:07:11,060
let's partake together.

1402
01:07:11,060 --> 01:07:14,420
Well I pray that God would just richly bless your life

1403
01:07:14,420 --> 01:07:17,060
and as we spend the next handful of weeks,

1404
01:07:17,060 --> 01:07:19,340
I really have no idea how long,

1405
01:07:19,340 --> 01:07:22,180
but as we go through these next chapters

1406
01:07:22,180 --> 01:07:26,260
and as we see the devastation that's to come on the earth,

1407
01:07:26,260 --> 01:07:29,500
I just pray that it would be a radical fire

1408
01:07:29,500 --> 01:07:32,420
for us to go out and to start warning people

1409
01:07:32,420 --> 01:07:33,820
about the judgment to come.

1410
01:07:34,940 --> 01:07:38,100
You know every single one of us were told by Jesus

1411
01:07:38,100 --> 01:07:41,060
about Jesus by someone, somebody handed us a tract,

1412
01:07:41,060 --> 01:07:42,380
somebody had a conversation with us,

1413
01:07:42,380 --> 01:07:45,140
somebody introduced us to Jesus Christ,

1414
01:07:45,140 --> 01:07:47,860
well you are that somebody for someone else.

1415
01:07:47,860 --> 01:07:50,020
And so take the opportunity as God gives them to you

1416
01:07:50,020 --> 01:07:52,820
to warn people about the judgment to come,

1417
01:07:52,820 --> 01:07:55,220
to share with them the hope of salvation,

1418
01:07:55,220 --> 01:07:57,100
to tell them both the good news of the gospel

1419
01:07:57,100 --> 01:07:58,860
and the bad news right?

1420
01:07:58,860 --> 01:08:01,220
The good news is Jesus loves you,

1421
01:08:01,220 --> 01:08:04,060
Jesus has saved you, he offers that salvation to you,

1422
01:08:04,060 --> 01:08:05,540
you just need to accept it,

1423
01:08:05,540 --> 01:08:07,220
the bad news is if you don't,

1424
01:08:08,260 --> 01:08:10,980
you're gonna get trampled by the horses,

1425
01:08:10,980 --> 01:08:13,620
judgment will come, judgment is coming.

1426
01:08:14,900 --> 01:08:16,060
We are the light on the hill,

1427
01:08:16,060 --> 01:08:18,060
let's be the ones that are warning people

1428
01:08:18,060 --> 01:08:20,380
and sharing with them the way out, amen?

1429
01:08:20,380 --> 01:08:39,380
All right, let's worship guys, God bless you.